Massie Introduces Bill To Curve FISA 702 Program Surveillance
Today, we’re introducing a brand new bill that’s long needed. Unfortunately, it’s needed because there have been so many erosions of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy by surveillance laws on Americans. You know, there’s a robust discussion right now about the FISA 702 program surveillance. Really, that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of infringement on the Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
Other Supreme Court Decisions to infringe on Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy
There are so many other surveillance laws and Supreme Court decisions that have infringed on your right to privacy. For instance, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, the Patriot Act. All of these have great sounding names, but all of them created so-called surveillance loopholes in the Constitution. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, not a euphemism, but misnamed because it’s got foreign in it. It’s used to infringe on Americans Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy.
Government Loopholes in Constitution for Surveillance of Americans
Secret applications of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). I’ve been in a stiff last week where I saw two secret rulings, interpretations of FISA law, of how the government has created additional loopholes to infringe on Americans Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy that I’m not even allowed to tell you. These are classified as top secret.
Explanation of FISA 702 Program Surveillance
Live to Capitol Hill tonight, where the Trump administration now pressuring Congress to renew a powerful surveillance law set to expire this coming Monday. The president calling directly on Republican lawmakers to unite behind a clean extension of Section 702 of FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that law allowing U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor foreign targets AND infringe on Americans Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle here are hesitant right now to extend the FISA 702 Program law without some reforms, like new guardrails on warrantless surveillance, as well as preventing government agencies from buying Americans’ private data from third-party brokers.
Rep Andy Biggs on Fourth Amendment Warrant
The warrant proposal that we’ve made is consistent with Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. It provides, in my opinion, a really, really big hole if you’ve got an exigent circumstance, a national security issue. You just go. When you’re making that investigation of a U.S. person, you need a Fourth Amendment warrant. That’s where the debate is right now.
Voting on FISA 702 Program Surveillance on Hold
In a pretty much last-minute move here, House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled tonight’s vote on a reauthorization for FISA 702 Program Surveillance Law as Republicans haggle over potential amendments to protect Americans Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy. Officials warn intelligence surveillance collection could go dark if Congress fails to act.
Incidental collection of Americans’ communications occurs when targets communicate with U.S. persons, raising privacy concerns. While the law prohibits targeting Americans or using the program to “reverse target” U.S. individuals via foreign contacts, agencies can query collected data using U.S. person identifiers, a practice critics call the “backdoor search loophole.” The program is subject to oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and requires annual certification of targeting and minimization procedures by the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence.
FISA 702 – Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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