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Congress has failed to pass a three-week extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), with the House voting 218-198 against<\/a> reauthorizing the controversial warrantless wiretapping authority through July 2nd. After a short-term extension<\/a> earlier this year, the spying program now appears set to lapse for at least a week. This is the nightmare scenario FISA\u2019s proponents have been warning about \u2014 but it doesn\u2019t actually mean the US has lost its surveillance capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Proponents of a clean extension claim a lapse will hinder intelligence agencies\u2019 efforts to thwart potential terrorist attacks, with surveillance networks \u201cgoing dark\u201d. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stressed the importance<\/a> of reauthorizing Section 702 ahead of the World Cup. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has said even a brief lapse would be disastrous. \u201cDemocrats in the Senate are playing political games right now with the lives of Americans,\u201d he told reporters Wednesday<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a very dangerous situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In March, the FISA court recertified surveillance under Section 702 until 2027. The Brennan Center for Justice notes<\/a> that a lapse won\u2019t allow telecom companies to flout requests to hand over communications information to the NSA and other spy agencies. In 2008, after Yahoo failed to comply with a Section 702 request during a lapse, the FISA court ruled that the directives issued under Section 702 are effective while the certification is in place \u2014 even in the event of a lapse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe phrase \u2018going dark\u2019 is significantly misleading,\u201d Andrea Sawka Fiegl, the senior policy director for media and technology at Common Cause, said on a Tuesday press call. Fiegl added that companies don\u2019t choose whether they participate in surveillance under Section 702. If they don\u2019t comply after being served with a directive, they face fines starting at $250,000 a day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe \u2018going dark\u2019 framing is basically a pressure tactic designed to strip Congress of its leverage to negotiate reforms by creating this false binary,\u201d Fiegl said. \u201cThere is ample time for Congress to consider and pass reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Among those reforms<\/a> are a warrant requirement for queries involving US persons, including so-called \u201cbackdoor searches\u201d in which intelligence agencies identify a foreign target with ties to a US person, and then search that person\u2019s communications, thus granting them access to their desired US target. Reformers also want to prohibit intelligence agencies from buying Americans\u2019 data from private brokers to get around warrant requirements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEvery day that Section 702 is in effect without reforms is a day that Americans\u2019 rights are under threat,\u201d Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said in a statement Wednesday night, after Senate Republicans blocked his request for a five-week extension of Section 702 with new transparency requirements. \u201cIf there is going to be an extension of these authorities, there needs to be some guardrails or at least some transparency that would allow Congress and the American people to understand the abuses that have taken place and the need for reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Though President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in both chambers have called for a clean reauthorization of Section 702, there\u2019s bipartisan appetite for reform \u2014 and a handful of Republican holdouts<\/a> stand in the way of a clean reauthorization. Most Democrats \u2014 even some who have supported reauthorization in the past \u2014 have objected to a clean extension due to Trump\u2019s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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