Congress must curtail or eliminate 2008 FISA Amendments Act enabling access to private calls, texts and emails.
Intelligence agencies and the Justice Department have gone to Congress this summer, hats in hand, promising it will all be different this time if lawmakers just reauthorize their massive power to spy on Americans without warrants.
That would be quite a turnaround after cycles of abuses, warnings and further abuses of Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, which authorizes spying on foreign actors in ways that sweep in millions of Americans’ online communications.revealed that the FBI abused this law more than 278,000 times just from 2020 to early 2021, using it to spy on crime victims, Jan. 6 riot suspects, people arrested at protests after the police killing of George Floyd, and congressional campaign donors.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, President George W. Bush bypassed the FISA Court and began illegally spying on domestic communications. Journalists and whistleblowers exposed the illegal surveillance years later. But, rather than stopping it, Congress passed the 2008 FISA Amendments Act to justify more spying.
In fact, despite Congress’s clear instructions that the agencies minimize the sharing, use and retention of the “incidentally” collected data, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest
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