House leadership is about to make another attempt at what it failed to do in December: push through an updated version of the House Intelligence Committee’s FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 by claiming the bill is a surveillance reform measure. The bill would reauthorize and expand – rather than reform – Section 702 of […]

A bicameral and bipartisan group of lawmakers is threatening to block legislation in the House that would extend a controversial spying program. Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash, joined by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and roughly a dozen other Republicans and Democrats from both chambers of Congress railed against Section 702 of the […]