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An existential battle over the US authorities’s capacity to spy by itself residents is brewing in Congress. And as this battle unfolds, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s greatest foes on Capitol Hill are now not reformers merely serious about reining in its authority. Many lawmakers, elevated to new heights of energy by the current election, are working to dramatically curtail the strategies by which the FBI investigates crime.
New particulars concerning the FBI’s failures to adjust to restrictions on using international intelligence for home crimes have emerged at a dangerous time for the US intelligence group. Part 702 of the International Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the so-called crown jewel of US intelligence, grants the federal government the flexibility to intercept the digital communications of abroad targets who’re unprotected by the Fourth Modification.
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