What the Heck is Up with 702?
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
As the year is coming to a close, Congress has now missed the deadline for reauthorizing FISA Section 702. Molly Reynolds, a Brookings fellow in Governance Studies and expert on Congress, joined Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey for a conversation on the failure to reauthorize and what happens next. They discussed the politics of Section 702, the influence of this year's overall legislative agenda, and what to expect in 2018 for the crucial intelligence apparatus.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.2 | It's not just that they've punted keeping the government open and the 702 reauthorization |
| 0:38.6 | to mid-January. |
| 0:39.6 | They've also punted a number of other issues to the beginning of next year. |
| 0:43.8 | Again, things like CHIP, things like the flood insurance program. |
| 0:48.8 | They did not resolve, for example, the DACA issue that remains out there. |
| 0:56.0 | So, it's not just that come January. |
| 0:59.3 | They're going to have to figure out how to keep the government open and how to reauthorize |
| 1:04.1 | 702. |
| 1:05.1 | It's that they have a number of other legislative deadlines that they also didn't resolve |
| 1:09.0 | at the end of this year. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast December 22, 2017. |
| 1:20.0 | It's nearly the end of the year and we're still here because we have work to do, kind |
| 1:26.7 | of like the Congress of the United States, which got to the end of 2017 without managing |
| 1:31.8 | to reauthorize FISA 702. |
| 1:35.7 | So they passed a 30-day extension, which in practice is probably more like an 8-day |
| 1:41.1 | extension given that they're not going to be here for much of the time. |
| 1:45.8 | It's the Politics of 702. |
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