of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit "said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans' telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional." Politico <https://www.politico.cotn/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727> (9/2,

nday, found that NSA "is behind on implementing internal data system controls aimed at assuring compliance with the domestic privacy protections in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." The IG "found that NSA did not have a necessary system control. ... Until this system control is implemented, the agency will be at risk for perf

ng pressed by Republican senators to assess Comey's job performance." Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC, "after pressing Garland on his thoughts related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, asked whether he believed Comey was a good FBI director. 'Senator, I really don't want to get into analyzing any of the previous directors,' Garla

nd increase Federal Trade Commission enforcement activity." Additionally, the "legal issues involved include U.S. surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" and other directives. The next administration "opens the door to potential reconsideration of, or modifications to," some of these, "which could p

of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit "said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans' telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional." Politico (9/2, Gerstein, 4.29M) reports the NSA program that "swept up details on billions of Americans'

se Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the FBI's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), arguing that the surveillance apparatus is critical to "fight the Chinese." According to the article, FISA Section 702, a post-9/11 section

cates that changes implemented by the agency have significantly improved compliance with rules governing access to communications intercepted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Prior to the changes, about 18 percent of database searches lacked sufficient justification or were improperly defined, but in a nine-month

vocates have criticized the law, but Congress renewed the legislation twice with broad bipartisan support. The article detailed that Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is among the most powerful tools wielded by U.S. spy agencies. According to the article, information collected by it contributes to more than half o

Tool After GOP Mutiny Threats Fox News (02/15, Elkind) reported that Speaker Mike Johnson had to postpone a House vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after a group of GOP lawmakers, led by members of the House Intelligence Committee, threatened to derail the legislation over concerns with a

hile Bill Is Stalled in Congress Washington Examiner (02/29, Oliver) reported that the Biden administration announced plans to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a surveillance program allowing warrantless surveillance of foreigners for national security purposes, despite concerns over FBI misuse and

) reported that Director Patel has scrapped the FBI's office of internal auditing, a unit set up to monitor compliance with surveillance rules under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The office was established in 2020 by William Barr to uncover misuses of FISA's section 702, which allows for the electronic tracking of fo

nd increase Federal Trade Commission enforcement activity." Additionally, the "legal issues involved include U.S. surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" and other directives. The next administration "opens the door to potential reconsideration of, or modifications to," some of these, "which could p

of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit "said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans' telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional." Politico (9/2, Gerstein, 4.29M) reports the NSA program that "swept up details on billions of Americans'

the Trump-Russia investigation after the conclusion of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation into alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." Graham, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, "said there are questions he wants to ask former FBI Director James Comey and his deputy Andrew

mited damage. Snowden did vastly more damage by revealing the PRISM pro- gram, also called “702” because it was authorized in 2008 by Section 7o2 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Its effectiveness proceeded from the misplaced confidence that terrorist organizations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan had in the encrypti

the American public, the NSA had not acted on its own. It had obtained a warrant issued by a secret court established by Congress in 1978 as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for each request for records. Congress empowered the FISA court to hear cases and authorize search warrants in secret in cases involving natio