This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.
On Monday, the House finalized procedural business on a bill to reauthorize the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called “one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history.”
The National Security Agency campus is seen in this aerial photograph taken above Fort Meade, Md. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I will do everything in my power to stop it from passing in the Senate,” said Wyden in a Friday post to X.
This bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history. I will do everything in my power to stop it from passing in the Senate. https://t.co/SAtcvDh1PD
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) April 12, 2024
Wyden is right…
In a Sunday night thread on X from Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, breaks down why this is so ‘terrifying.’
“Buried in the Section 702 reauthorization bill (RISAA) passed by the House on Friday is the biggest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act. Senator Wyden calls this power “terrifying,” and he’s right,” the thread begins.
Buried in the Section 702 reauthorization bill (RISAA) passed by the House on Friday is the biggest expansion of domestic surveillance since the Patriot Act. Senator Wyden calls this power “terrifying,” and he’s right. 2/25 https://t.co/9GltMyp5ZY
— Elizabeth Goitein (@LizaGoitein) April 15, 2024
Continued via X (emphasis ours),
I’ll explain how this new power works. Under current law, the government can compel “electronic communications service providers” that have direct access to communications to assist the NSA in conducting Section 702 surveillance.
In practice, that means companies like Verizon and Google must turn
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