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Cornyn said materials from Section 702 generate roughly 60 percent of the President\u2019s Daily Brief, a figure Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley has also cited.<\/p>\n

Some Republicans dispute the catastrophe framing. Representative Keith Self of Texas called the warnings<\/a> \u201chysteria,\u201d arguing that other FISA authorities remain in force and that proponents should accept reforms such as a warrant requirement: \u201cFISA isn\u2019t going dark. We have the law. We have precedent from 2008. Don\u2019t fall for the scare tactics.\u201d The libertarian Cato Institute has made a similar point.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [702] program has the FISA court\u2019s permission to continue for another year, so it will continue whether we act or not,\u201d said a senior Republican aide on a relevant committee. \u201cNone of the members saying the program is ending Friday will be claiming it\u2019s actually dead on Monday\u2014especially those on intel. They know better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hajar Hammado, a senior policy adviser at Demand Progress, was sharper still. \u201cIf Republican leadership actually believed their baseless fearmongering about security at the World Cup, then they would do what needs to be done to get a deal to renew FISA by finally allowing votes on warrant requirements,\u201d she said. \u201cAny threats to national security during the World Cup fall squarely in the hands of Cotton, Grassley, and Trump officials who still refuse to allow votes on popular bipartisan reforms.\u201d She added that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has already ruled that 702 surveillance remains in effect until March 2027 under existing orders. This makes Johnson\u2019s and Thune\u2019s warnings about imminent national security consequences, in her view, a threat to civil liberties dressed up as urgency.<\/p>\n

Even so, the Republican chairs of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees, Tom Cotton and Chuck Grassley, respectively, have asked the administration to plan for a collection gap\u2014including, if necessary, drafting an executive order to fill it.<\/p>\n

Jake Laperruque, a surveillance policy expert at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said the standoff is a symptom of a deliberate process failure. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to go through a sunset, and we don\u2019t need to continue the same chaotic process of punting FISA with another short-term extension,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can end the deadlock and resolve this issue now, but leadership needs to stop muzzling debate and allow a vote on warrants and reforms, like we\u2019ve always had in the past. Blocking off reform votes is the reason we\u2019re in this mess, and allowing votes on reforms is the only way out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fight is unfolding as the government withholds two sets of records bearing on how Section 702 is used. In a June 3 letter to colleagues<\/a>, Senator Ron Wyden wrote that warrantless searches sweeping in American politicians, activists, and journalists more than tripled in 2025<\/a> and that a still-secret FISA court opinion from March describes serious abuses. The administration has refused to declassify it, even after the Intelligence Committee\u2019s leaders jointly asked for its release.<\/p>\n

Separately, in a Freedom of Information Act suit brought by Cato, the FBI disclosed in a June 4 court filing that it had identified roughly 39,650 potentially responsive pages of Section 702 noncompliance records<\/a>, but said it will not begin releasing them until mid-August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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