Biden Administration Seeks Court Approval to Extend FBI’s Controversial Surveillance Tool
The Biden administration is asking a court to renew one of the FBI’s most controversial surveillance tools, a move that would bypass congressional approval.
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House Republicans Unveil Measure to Reauthorize, Reform FBI’s Controversial Surveillance Tool
House Republicans introduced a measure Monday to reauthorize and reform one of the FBI’s most controversial surveillance tools.
Wray Makes Impassioned Plea for Congress to Renew Surveillance Tool
FBI Director Christopher Wray urged a Senate committee on Tuesday to reauthorize one of the bureau’s most controversial surveillance tools, invoking the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and saying the spy program is “indispensable to our threats posed by foreign adversaries.”
FBI’s Foreign Surveillance Authority Should Face New Limits, Oversight Board Says
One of the FBI’s most controversial surveillance tools faces serious impediments after a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended making it more difficult to gather data.
Republicans Threaten to End FBI’s Use of Controversial Surveillance Tool
Republican angry with the FBI could help end the bureau’s use of a controversial surveillance tool used to gather phone calls and text messages of foreign targets overseas.
FBI Abused Foreign Surveillance Authority to Investigate Racial Justice Protesters
FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they used a foreign surveillance authority in 2020 for information on racial justice protesters, according to two reports declassified Friday.
Audit Finds Only Minor Clerical Errors in FISA Warrants After Carter Page Controversy
Only minor clerical errors were found in an internal audit of 29 warrant applications by the FBI to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), the bureau said Tuesday.
House Considers Bill to Limit When FBI Can Collect Web-Browsing History without a Warrant
The U.S. House of Representatives appears to have a reached a compromise on a bill that would limit when the FBI can collect records on Americans’ internet browsing histories without a judge’s warrant.