THERE WILL BE SENATE VOTES ON SECTION 702 TODAY. Please call this number (202-899-8938) ASAP to be connected to your Senators and urge them to vote “NO” on RISAA, which contains a “terrifying” provision (@RonWyden) that will force U.S. businesses to serve as NSA spies. 1/9
For more background on this provision, see my op-ed in the Hill yesterday…2/9 thehill.com/opinion/techno…
…or my tweet thread from Monday… 3/9 x.com/lizagoitein/st…
…or my tweet thread from Monday… 3/9 x.com/lizagoitein/st…
…or this @nytimes story from Tuesday, which also explains how the drafters of this provision wrote it incredibly broadly to disguise the specific thing they were trying to get at. 4/9 nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/…
Members want to offer an amendment to strip this disastrous provision from the bill—as well as other amendments that would add critical protections for Americans, such as a warrant requirement for “backdoor searches.” 5/9
But the administration is telling senators they must NOT vote for ANY amendments, because then the bill would have to go back to the House, Congress would miss the April 19 deadline to renew Section 702, and there would be a lapse in collection. NOT TRUE. 6/9
As the @nytimes reports today, the idea that Section 702 collection will lapse if the law expires is “significantly misleading.” That’s because the FISA Court has approved a “certification” that allows Section 702 collection to continue *until April 2025*… 7/9
…and as the FISA Court ruled 16 years ago, such certifications remain valid until their expiration date even if the underlying law expires. So even if Section 702 sunsets, collection under the program will be “grandfathered” until April 2025. 8/9
@LizaGoitein @nytimes The #FISA court is little better than a Star Chamber.
@LizaGoitein @DeirdreMacDoug2 @nytimes The NYT is Jewish-controlled (check!) biased rag. No point reading