{"id":1992267,"date":"2023-08-06T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T04:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T08:12:40","slug":"white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"White House prepares for FBI spy tool battle."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1992267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Biden Administration Takes Steps to Address Concerns \u2063About Government Surveillance Tool<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has \u200cmade progress in addressing concerns surrounding a controversial government surveillance\u2063 tool. This week, they released a report from an advisory panel that recommends reforms to the tool. <\/p>\n<p>The Intelligence Advisory Board, led by President Joe Biden, concluded that the tool\u200b should undergo minimal\u200d reforms as it approaches\u2062 reauthorization at the end of the year. However, some members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, \u2063are pushing for more significant changes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Warning: Failure to Reauthorize Section 702 Could Have Serious\u200b Consequences<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report issued a warning, stating\u200b that if Congress fails to reauthorize Section 702,\u200b it could\u200b be seen as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dick-cheney-ignores-his-own-record-while-indicting-trump-as-worst-threat-to-american-democracy-ever\/\" title=\"Dick Cheney Ignores His Own Record While Indicting Trump As Worst Threat To American Democracy Ever\">worst intelligence failures<\/a> in history. <\/p>\n<p>Section \u200b702 of the Foreign Intelligence \u2063Surveillance\u200b Act authorizes four agencies in \u200bthe intelligence community \u2063to\u2062 use this\u200b powerful tool. However, lawmakers are particularly concerned about the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s (FBI) use of the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from the Justice Department&#8217;s inspector\u2063 general and the director of \u200cnational intelligence have revealed instances of the FBI misusing Section\u200b 702. While the tool is designed for warrantless surveillance of foreigners, it also allows for limited \u200dqueries of U.S. persons related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-nsa-unmasked-tucker-carlson-report-says-fox-news-responds\/\" title=\"BREAKING: NSA Unmasked Tucker Carlson, Report Says; Fox News Responds\">foreign intelligence gathering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The advisory \u200dboard&#8217;s report\u200d found that the FBI, due to its domestic purview, conducts a \u2062larger\u200b percentage of \u200bU.S. person queries compared to other \u200bagencies like the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>While the report acknowledged\u200c that these searches are used as a preliminary \u200bexploratory tool\u200b to determine if someone is involved in a foreign operation, it emphasized that a warrant is required for further querying \u2064once that determination is made. <\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have pointed\u200b out \u200dthat the FBI has wrongly searched names of individuals in the United States in the past, potentially violating the \u2064Constitution. The\u200c report attributed these incidents to complacency, lack of proper procedures, and the\u2062 sheer volume \u200bof Section 702 activity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>FBI&#8217;s Access to Section 702 Data is Crucial for National Security<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite these \u200dconcerns, the report strongly emphasized \u2064that\u2062 the FBI&#8217;s access to Section 702 data is \u2063critical for national security. Losing this access would significantly impact America&#8217;s safety.<\/p>\n<p>This report follows the declassification of a \u200ccourt opinion by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in May. The opinion revealed that the FBI had improperly used Section 702 over 278,000 times in recent years, including investigations into the \u2064Jan. 6 Capitol riot and protests related to the death of\u200c George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, the Office of \u2064the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report that found the FBI had\u200c conducted unlawful\u200c searches and inappropriately queried the name of a congressman, \u200clater identified as Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL).<\/p>\n<p>Rep. LaHood stated\u2063 that incidents like these, along \u200cwith \u200bother abuses, \u200cshould serve as a wake-up call for the intelligence\u200d community. He believes that reauthorization of Section 702 without reform is not an \u200coption.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Andy Biggs \u200c(R-AZ) also expressed concerns about the FBI&#8217;s misuse of spying powers\u2063 and its surveillance on innocent \u2064Americans. He stated that he will not \u200ballow such \u2063abuses to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, \u2062Rep. LaHood, Rep. Biggs, and other \u2064members from\u200c the House Intel and Judiciary Committees are part of two working \u200cgroups \u2062developing Congress&#8217;s \u200dplan for the upcoming reauthorization deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats share the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight\/\" title=\"White House prepares for FBI spy tool battle.\">skepticism surrounding reauthorization due<\/a> to civil rights concerns. \u2063Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, \u2064has never voted to reauthorize Section 702\u2062 in the past. However, he stated that he would consider supporting \u2064it this year if\u2062 privacy concerns are adequately addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Nadler&#8217;s stance aligns with Judiciary\u200c Chairman Jim\u2062 Jordan\u200d (R-OH), who also opposes reauthorization and aims to \u200blimit or restrict the FBI&#8217;s role in Section 702.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent declassified \u2062report, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines \u200bnoted a small number of violations with \u2064Section 702\u200b queries but highlighted a significant improvement in\u2063 compliance with the tool&#8217;s guardrails, which the FBI claims to have improved upon \u2063in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, Republicans\u2062 have expressed concerns about the\u200c integrity of\u200c the\u2063 counting methodology\u2064 used to report\u200b these improvements, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-defense-dept-could-make-unvaxxed-navy-seals-pay-for-their-training-trumps-interior-sec-a-former-navy-seal-blasts-biden\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Defense Dept. Could Make Unvaxxed Navy SEALs Pay For Their Training. Trump\u2019s Interior Sec, A Former Navy SEAL, Blasts Biden\">internal document reviewed<\/a> by the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these debates, the Biden administration has consistently stated that Section 702 reauthorization is a top legislative priority. They agree with the \u2062panel&#8217;s \u200breport that the tool is crucial for \u2064national security, including combating terrorism and cybersecurity threats. They believe it should be reauthorized without new restrictions that could hinder its effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the report, the FBI \u200bstated that they agree Section 702 should be reauthorized in a way that maintains its effectiveness and reassures the \u200cpublic of its\u2062 importance. They look forward to engaging \u2063with Congress on the\u2064 recommendations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from \u2062the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration released an advisory panel&#8217;s report on a controversial surveillance tool, taking a step to address concerns. President Biden&#8217;s Intelligence Advisory Board recommended minimal reforms for the tool as it nears reauthorization at year-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1992268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}