POV: Section 702’s always been rotten. Congress must trash it at expiration
Political leaders need to respect our nation’s democratic process and cease any efforts to extend Section 702 without debate or much supported reform.
In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police, hundreds of thousands of Americans risked arrest, taking to city streets crowded with combative police forces and drones. Law enforcement agencies treated these protests against police brutality and systemic racism not only like crime scenes, but also like foreign terrorism investigations. Over the span of 20 days, the FBI searched information collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to dig up the digital data and communications of 133 people arrested at the demonstrations.
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