Sens. Paul, Wyden to Introduce FISA Legislation
Joint legislation reauthorizing and amending Section 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Authority is “soon” to be released by Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a Wyden aide told us. There are reports a closed markup is planned of…
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a separate bipartisan bill in the Senate Intelligence Committee. Privacy groups are pressuring lawmakers to think carefully about changes to existing law. House Judiciary’s USA Liberty Act (HR-3989) “falls short,” blogged Rainey Reitman, activism director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. EFF would like to see a new bill prevent “backdoor searching” when domestic law enforcement entities query data collected by NSA for criminal investigations without a warrant from a judge. The bill doesn’t include sufficient transparency and oversight, and “won’t curtail the NSA’s practices of collecting data on innocent people,” Reitman said: HR-3989 doesn’t require data to be purged “by a fixed deadline” except when it's determined a communication has no foreign intelligence value, opening the possibility that “rogue government employees” could tap into the data. American Enterprise Institute scholar Claude Barfield challenged parties with disparate views to consider whether their positions have merit, blogging that House Judiciary Committee leaders should address the loophole concerns that privacy groups raised. The backdoor loophole is a continuing concern, Michelle Richardson, Center for Democracy & Technology Freedom, Security, and Technology Project deputy director, told us.