FISA 702 Passes the House
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
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Summary
Friday morning, the House of Representatives suddenly—after failing to do so earlier in the week—took up the reauthorization of FISA 702. They considered a bunch of amendments, one of which failed on a tie vote, and then proceeded to pass reauthorization of 702.
Immediately after the votes, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke with Lawfare Senior Editors Stephanie Pell and Molly Reynolds, and Lawfare Student Contributor Preston Marquis. They talked about how the center beat the coalition of the left and right on the key question of warrant requirements for U.S. person queries, about whether the civil liberties community gained anything in this protracted process or whether the administration just kicked its butt, about what happens now as the bill goes back to the Senate, and about all the little details that went into this bill.
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| 1:16.3 | provision that if the FBI believes that the query will produce evidence of a crime, that the |
| 1:22.4 | query could also be run. |
| 1:23.6 | And so the base bill essentially lops off the second half of that standard |
| 1:28.3 | where the FBI can no longer run a query solely to produce evidence of a crime. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the |
| 1:36.4 | Law Fair Podcast April 16th, 2024. Friday morning the House of Representatives suddenly, after failing to do so earlier in the week, took up the reauthorization of FISA 702, considered a bunch of amendments one of them failed on a tie vote and then |
| 1:57.2 | proceeded to pass reauthorization of seven oh two immediately after the vote of 702. |
| 2:03.0 | Immediately after the votes, we convened in the virtual jungle studio, |
| 2:08.0 | lawfare senior editor Stephanie Pell, |
| 2:11.0 | lawfare student contributor, Preston Marquis, and Lawfair Senior Editor Molly Reynolds to talk |
| 2:18.9 | it all through. |
| 2:20.5 | We talked about how the center beat the coalition of the left and right on the key question of warrant requirements for U.S. person queries. |
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