The intelligence community won a new expansion of snooping powers from Congress but opponents managed to cut the extension to just two years, meaning Capitol Hill will revisit the fight a lot sooner than the spy community had wanted.
President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order to improve government services, in the Oval Office of the White House, Dec. 13, 2021, in Washington. The intelligence community won a new expansion of snooping powers from Congress but opponents …
Dubbed by critics as the “everyone is a spy” provision, the data center provision was tucked into the bill late in the process and turned into a major sticking point in the Senate. Sen. Marco Rubio, the panel’s vice chairman, said the issue is sensitive and it was “tough” to talk about it in public but he assured senators the fix was needed to close what he called “an unintended gap in coverage.”
FISA opponents had gone into this year’s battle hoping to finally force a warrant requirement when the government wants to snoop through Americans’ data. They pointed to a history of FBI abuses, including querying the Section 702 data to investigate racial justice protesters, political campaign donors and those involved in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Supporting the bill were 30 Republicans and 30 members of the Democratic Caucus. Opposing it were 16 Republicans and 18 members of the Democratic Caucus.
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