Restore the Fourth
The New York Times reports that the Biden administration is asking a secret court to reapprove its mass surveillance powers for a full year, rather than accepting key statutory reforms that would meaningfully limit its ability to spy on Americans without a warrant. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), a leading reformer, fired back: “A broad bipartisan, […]
On Friday, an explosive ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was released. It proved what we’ve been saying for years: The FBI, and the intelligence community more broadly, can’t be trusted not to spy on Americans. As the ruling notes, the FBI abused its foreign intelligence authorities, during the course of a single […]