The U.S. government intercepts foreigners' communications, raising concerns about privacy and security. Congress is discussing the reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA to strike a balance between privacy and combating terrorism.
Rep. Andy Biggs walks to a House vote in D.C. on July 26, 2023,. As the U.S. government intercepts foreigners’ communications, conversations with or about Americans inevitably get swept up. Once again, Congress is battling over whether and how the FBI should be able to access this information.
True, the FBI failed to satisfy those requirements more than 278,000 times in 2020 and early 2021. Agents searched the 702 system to see whether people arrested at Black Lives Matter protests and after the, 2021, insurrection had links to foreign intelligence services. One agent searched the names of 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign. In other cases, investigators queried the names of a senator and congressman.
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