2023/2024 DISCUSSIONS
Commentary
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Senate passed H.R. 7888, Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, which will renew and reform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
April 20, 2024
By: National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan | The White House
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House votes to renew FISA spying tool after earlier Republican revolt
April 12, 2024
By: Scott Wong, Sahil Kapur, & Rebecca Kaplan | NBC News
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Gerstell: ‘You couldn’t possibly pick a worse time to blind ourselves’ by failing to pass FISA (msnbc.com)
April 11, 2024
By: Andrea Mitchell. MSNBC, interview with Ryan Nobles, NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent and Glenn Gerstell, former General Counsel, NSA | NBC News
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Reforming Section 702: Should the FBI require a warrant to search its database for the communications of US persons?
March 12, 2024
By: Elizabeth Goitein & Glenn Gerstell | The Federalist Society -
FISA Amendments Must Acknowledge Critical Role of OSINT
February 20, 2024
By: Andrew Borene & Donald Saelinger | The Cipher Brief
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What worries me most after five years as leader of the NSA
February 14, 2024
By: Paul M. Nakasone | The Washington Post
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Why a Warrant Requirement for 702 Searches Will Do More Harm Than Good
February 12, 2024
By: Glenn S. Gerstell | LAWFARE
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A reply to Senator Wyden’s “facts” about electronic surveillance “reform”
February 8, 2024
By: George W. Croner | The Rule of Law Post
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The Facts About Electronic Surveillance Reform
January 31, 2024
By: Senator Ron Wyden | Just Security
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The national security stakes could not be higher as the FISA Section 702 reauthorization debate resumes
January 19, 2024
By: George W. Croner | Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
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Secure the border and stop the cartels with FISA
December 13, 2023
By: Stewart Baker & Michael Ellis | Washington Examiner
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The House Judiciary Committee’s Bipartisan Disaster
December 12, 2023
By: Benjamin Wittes | LAWFARE
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FISA 702 at Stake: Congressional Clash Over Surveillance Authority
December 12, 2023
Glenn Gerstell & Adam Hickey | Podcast: National Security Law Today
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National Security Officials 702 letter
December 11, 2023
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Lawmakers Will Need to Own the Consequences of Letting Section 702 Lapse
December 11, 2023
By: Emily Harding | Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
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Expanding the Reverse Targeting Prohibition: A Back Door Repeal of 702?
December 11, 2023
By: Alex Joel & Robert S. Litt | LAWFARE
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The Expiration Date on Privacy Protections for Americans Abroad
December 8, 2023
By: Alex Joel | LAWFARE
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Congress must protect our servicemembers by reauthorizing Section 702
December 8, 2023
By Ronald S. Moultrie | Roll Call
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H.R. 6570 - Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act: Rules Committee Print 118-16
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H.R. 6611 - FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023: Rules Committee Print 118-17
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Now is the chance for Republicans to reform the FBI
December 7, 2023
By: Adam Klein | Washington Examiner
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We need Section 702 reauthorization now
December 5, 2023
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A Key Enabler of U.S. Diplomacy: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
December 5, 2023
By: Brett Holmgren | Semafor
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FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023: Section by Section
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(WYDEN): Government Surveillance Reform Act
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FISA Section 702 Backdoor Searches: Myths and Facts
November 30, 2023
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We Can’t Return to a Pre-9/11 Mindset on Foreign Surveillance
November 23, 2023
By: Michael B. Mukasey and Jamil N. Jaffer | Wall Street Journal
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FISA Reauthorization: How America’s Most Critical National Security Tool Must Be Reformed to Continue to Save American Lives and Liberty
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FISA Section 702’s Challenging Passage to Reauthorization in 2023
November 4, 2023
By: George Croner | Journal of National Security Law and Policy
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This FISA provision goes beyond terrorism. It’s vital to beating the opioid crisis
November 1, 2023
By: Rahul Gupta | The Washington Post
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The FISA Reauthorization Should Codify Safeguards for Non-U.S. Persons
October 31, 2023
By: Cameron Kerry | LAWFARE
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Reforming FISA Section 702: Communications searches should require a court order
October 30, 2023
By: Sharon Bradford Franklin, Edward W. Felten, and Travis LeBlanc | Washington Times
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The PCLOB Stubs Its Toe on Use of U.S. Person Queries with FISA Section 702
October 4, 2023
By: George Croner | Just Security
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A Look at the PCLOB Report on Section 702
October 3, 2023
By: Stewart Baker | LAWFARE
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How Section 702 Surveillance Helps Keep Sensitive U.S. Technologies From China, Russia, Iran and North Korea
September 30, 2023
By: Matthew S. Axelrod | Just Security
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Report On the Surveillance Program Operated Pursuant to Section 702 Of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
September 28, 2023
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Civil Liberties Advocates’ Statement Following Meeting with DNI Avril Haines
September 8, 2023
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Podcast episode 290 | Section 702: Security Benefits and Skepticism with Joshua Geltzer
September 5, 2023
Elisa Poteat & Joshua Geltzer | National Security Law Today
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Key US Intelligence Tool Set to Expire
September 5, 2023
By: George W. Croner | Center for Intelligence and Nontraditional War, Foreign Policy Research Institute
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“Not the time for Congress to say ‘gentlemen do not read each other’s mail’”
September 3, 2023
By: Jon Darby and Thomas Warrick, Opinion Contributors | The Hill
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The Government’s Section 702 Playbook Doesn’t Work Anymore
August 30, 2023
By: Patrick C. Toomey, Sarah Taitz and Kia Hamadanchy | Just Security
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Reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a national security imperative
August 16, 2023
By: Matthew Olsen and Joshua Geltzer, Opinion Contributors | The Hill
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Many are focusing on the wrong FISA fix
August 15, 2023
By: Stewart Baker and Michael Ellis, Opinion Contributors | The Hill
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A Front Row View of the NSA: Reflections from General Paul M. Nakasone
August 10, 2023
Glenn Gerstell, General Paul Nakasone, Tom Bossert, and April Doss | Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
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President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) And Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) Review of FISA Section 702 and Recommendations for Reauthorization
July 2023
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Josh Geltzer on 702 Reauthorization
July 28, 2023
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FISA Section 702 Booklet
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The Year of Section 702 Reform, Part III: Why Congress Should Not Exempt Warrantless “Foreign Intelligence” Queries
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A Close and Critical Look at the ‘Five Things’ the ACLU Says You Need to Know About ‘NSA Mass Surveillance’
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Release of Documents Related to the 2023 FISA Section 702 Certifications
July 21, 2023
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FISA Section 702 Fact Sheet
July 2023
Office of the Director National Intelligence (ODNI)
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How FBI Querying Under FISA Section 702 Works
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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 702 Re-Authorization
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Why the FBI’s querying of intelligence collection under FISA Section 702 is not “domestic spying”
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Oversight of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Related Surveillance Authorities
June 13, 2023
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House Republicans should use debt ceiling playbook to reform the intelligence community
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The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance: What’s at Stake as Congress Considers FISA Reform
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CISOs, Don’t Ignore the FISA Section 702 Debate
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FBI Releases Results of OIA FISA Query Audit
May 11, 2023
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Congress must renew America’s most important intelligence collection program: George Croner
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Expert Backgrounder: Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act vs. Section 702
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State Department Official on Foreign Surveillance and Intel Gathering
May 30, 2023
C-Span
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Fixing FISA: How a Law Designed to Protect Americans Has Been Weaponized Against Them
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Annual Statistical Transparency Report Calendar Year 2022
April 27, 2023
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FBI Releases FISA Query Guidance
April 24, 2023
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The Reauthorization of Section 702 with April Doss
April 20, 2023
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The Year of Section 702 Reform, Part II: Closing the Gaps and Completing the Modernization of FISA
April 18, 2023
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A Brief History of Programmatic Collection Pre-Section 702
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Don’t Eliminate One of America’s Best Spy Tools
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Vicious Cycle: How Press Bias Fed FISA Abuse in the Trump-Russia Panic
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The Year of Section 702’s Reauthorization: A Reply on “Back Door” Searches
March 8, 2023 | By: George Croner - Just Security
In response to: The Year of Section 702 Reform, Part I: Backdoor Searches | February 13, 2023 | By: Elizabeth Goitein, Just Security
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The Year of Section 702’s Reauthorization: A Reply on “Back Door” Searches
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The Year of Section 702 Reform, Part I: Backdoor Searches
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A conversation with Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen on the reauthorization of FISA Section 702
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Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen Delivers Remarks at Brookings Institution on Section 702
February 28, 2023
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House GOP quickly Sinks intel community’s hope for easy surveillance green light
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F.B.I. Queries for U.S. Messages Collected Without Warrants Are Said to Drop ‘Dramatically’
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702 FISC FOIA Complaint
February 3, 2023
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FISA Section 702 (2008-2023?)
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NSA's former top lawyer on understanding electronic surveillance — "Intelligence Matters"
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A major government surveillance power faces big questions in 2023
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NSA leader pushes lawmakers to keep surveillance power
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PCLOB Public Forum on FISA Section 702
January 12, 2023
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Keynote Speech by GEN Paul M. Nakasone at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Public Forum on FISA Section 702
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