Rep. Chris Stewart said House Republicans will not agree to reauthorize a law that gives intelligence agencies broad surveillance powers without 'meaningful reform' after seeing how it was misused to justify spying on the Trump campaign and on Americans.
"meaningful reform" after seeing how it was misused to justify spying on the Trump campaign and on hundreds of thousands of Americans.
"If you've lost guys like me, then you've lost a lot of people who are saying, not going to do it again. I'm not going to allow this kind of abuse we've seen over the last five years without some changes," he said. "And I think that represents a broad majority of Republicans and some Democrats as well.
in 2020 and 2021, using Section 702 of the law, which gives them the ability to surveil digital communications. He said he doesn't think these organizations should have the power to open investigations into hundreds of thousands of Americans "without any cause at all, without any warrant, without any suspicion of activity, just the ability to open … the book into your life."
He said members of Congress have been trying to raise awareness of problems within the intelligence community, but they just didn't "have the microphone."
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