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Senator says queries of U.S. persons under FISA Section 702 should require warrants after Senate renewal
Summary
In an interview, an unnamed senator criticized the Senate's recent renewal of FISA Section 702 for lacking a warrant requirement before querying incidentally collected U.S. person data, citing specific examples of alleged FBI misuse and calling oversight arrangements inadequate.
An unnamed senator told interviewer Marie that the Senate's recent, late-night renewal of FISA Section 702 failed to protect ordinary Americans from warrantless searches of incidentally collected communications.
The senator described "incidental collection" under Section 702: when a person on U.S. soil communicates with a target abroad, "your end of that conversation ... will also be scooped up" and stored on an NSA database. "In order to access it, knowing that you're a U.S. citizen, they should have to get a warrant for that," the senator said. "It's not too much to ask."
Marie, the interviewer, noted that…
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