Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Reform FISA

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A bipartisan group of senators and representatives have introduced the bicameral Government Surveillance Reform Act to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with new protections for constitutional rights. The bill was sponsored by...

A bipartisan group of senators and representatives have introduced the bicameral Government Surveillance Reform Act to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with new protections for constitutional rights.

Section 702 currently allows only for the "individualized and limited" surveillance of "non-U.S. persons who are reasonably believed to be located outside the United States and who are assessed by the intelligence community to possess or communicate specific types of foreign intelligence information identified by the attorney general and the director of national intelligence.

Americans know it is possible to confront our country’s adversaries ferociously without throwing our constitutional rights in the trash can, Wyden said. But for too long, surveillance laws have not kept up with changing times.

 

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