The House Debate on Surveillance and Section 702

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Nineteen Republicans break with Speaker Mike Johnson by blocking a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, after Donald Trump comes out against. Section 702 lets the government collect communications from foreigners overseas, which can include messages with Americans. What reforms to this power are enough to ensure accountability? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:30.0	Speaker Mike Johnson moves to renew so-called Section 702 surveillance authority,
0:36.0	but some members of the House seem set to object as Donald Trump in the meantime calls for
0:41.4	Republicans to derail the whole bill.
0:44.3	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:47.6	We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Kim Strassal. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
0:56.0	Act or FISA is getting a renewal debate in the House this week with particular focus on
1:02.3	Section 702, this provision that lets the US government collect
1:06.4	communications from non-Americans overseas, though those communications might include messages to and from Americans.
1:15.0	Let's listen first to Speaker Mike Johnson giving an argument in a press conference today
1:20.0	about why he thinks this is important.
1:22.0	We don't want to be able to use or to lose Section 702 of FISA.
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