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Reps. Clyde and Boebert: No Warrants, No FISA

Rep. Andrew Clyde | Rep. Lauren Boebert

When there’s a real chance of protecting Americans’ privacy, the deep state always runs the same playbook. Slow walk votes on reforms. Allow the clock to run out. Highlight a potential national security scare. And reiterate the status quo while calling it reform.

That’s why we must deliver real reforms before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expires on June 12.

Our demand is not complicated. It is merely for a fair vote on something that a uniquely bipartisan coalition and 76% of Americans want, and that came within a single vote of passing just two years ago.

Under Section 702 of FISA, the government warrantlessly vacuums up hundreds of millions of international communications every year. The problem is that the CIA, the FBI, and the National Security Agency then specifically search through that information looking for Americans’ communications. This backdoor search inverts the “foreign” part of FISA.

House conservatives have come to the table on this intensely important issue many times. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., has introduced a marquee privacy bill that would enact a slate of overwhelmingly popular privacy protections—the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act.

It would do nothing to stop the government from looking at foreigners. And rather than repealing Section 702, it would extend it for longer than the administration has asked for. It would simply establish independent judicial review before the government can initiate searches using your name, email address, or phone number, like the Fourth Amendment........

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