Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, criticizes national security hawks for opposing a warrant requirement in the new FISA bill, questioning their motives.
Rep. Jim Jordan , R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee , questions Special Counsel Robert Hur during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan , Ohio Republican, took a swipe at national security hawks over their insistence that the government’s top spying tool be reauthorized without a warrant requirement .
The FBI and the intelligence community have leaned on congressional lawmakers for over a year to re-up the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without a warrant requirement. “If this happened again with Crossfire Hurricane, I would predict there’d be four to five people within the FBI personnel that would be indicted by now.”
“I think that those who mischaracterize this are small compared to those who understand that this goes to the heart of our ability to get intelligence,” Mr. Turner said after saying he believes the bill will pass. “It allows us to be able to keep Americans safe. This is not a warrantless surveillance of Americans.”
Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, on X, accused House Republicans of creating a “fake national security” distraction to convince the chamber to adjourn when lawmakers were ready to pass legislation prohibiting warrantless searches of Americans’ private communications under FISA 702. Congress is racing toward an April 19 deadline for the expiration of Section 702. Nearly all members agree that the program needs changes, particularly after a series of damning reports about abuses in the top-secret program. But lawmakers disagree on how far to go.
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