{"id":1992271,"date":"2023-08-06T04:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T04:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T08:16:48","slug":"white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight-2\/","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-2%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=1992271&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 \u200bSteps to Address Concerns About \u200bGovernment \u2064Surveillance Tool<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has made progress\u2062 in addressing concerns surrounding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-fbi-spy-tool-fight-2\/\" title=\"White House prepares for FBI spy tool battle.\">controversial government\u2063 surveillance tool<\/a>.\u2064 This week, they released a report from an advisory panel that recommends reforms\u2064 to the tool. <\/p>\n<p>The Intelligence Advisory Board, led by President Joe Biden, concluded that the tool\u2063 should undergo minimal \u2062reforms as\u200c it approaches reauthorization\u2063 at the end of the year. However, some members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, are \u200cpushing for more significant changes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Warning: Failure to Reauthorize Section 702 Could Have Serious \u2062Consequences<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u200b report issued a warning, stating\u200c that if Congress fails to reauthorize \u200bSection 702, \u200cit\u2064 could be seen as one of the worst\u200b intelligence \u200bfailures in \u2063history.<\/p>\n<p>Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorizes four agencies\u2062 in the intelligence community to use this powerful tool. However, lawmakers\u200c are particularly concerned about the\u200d Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s (FBI)\u2063 use\u2062 of\u2064 the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from the Justice Department&#8217;s inspector general and the director of national intelligence have revealed instances of the FBI misusing Section 702. While\u200c the tool is designed for warrantless surveillance of foreigners, it also allows for limited\u2064 queries \u200cof U.S. persons related \u2063to foreign \u200cintelligence gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064advisory board&#8217;s report found that \u2064the\u2063 FBI, due to its domestic purview, conducts a\u2064 larger percentage of U.S. person queries \u2062compared to other agencies like the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u2063report acknowledged that these searches\u2062 of \u200dU.S. persons within lawfully obtained Section \u2064702 data are only preliminary \u2063and exploratory, \u200cit emphasized that \u2062a\u200b warrant is required for further querying once a determination is\u200c made. It also acknowledged that\u2062 the \u200bFBI has\u2063 mistakenly searched \u200dnames of individuals in the \u2064United\u2064 States, potentially violating the Constitution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>FBI&#8217;s \u2064Access to \u200dSection 702 Data is Crucial for National Security<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the FBI&#8217;s misuse of Section 702, the report strongly emphasized that \u2062the FBI&#8217;s access to this data is critical for\u200d national security. Losing\u200b this access would significantly impact America&#8217;s\u200b safety.<\/p>\n<p>This report follows the declassification of a\u200c court\u2063 opinion by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines in\u200b May. The opinion revealed that the \u200bFBI \u2062had improperly used Section 702 over 278,000 times in recent\u200b years, including investigations\u200b into \u200cthe Jan. 6 Capitol riot and protests related \u2064to the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to \u2064this, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report that also found the FBI conducting unlawful searches and\u2062 inappropriately querying the name of a\u200b congressman.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the \u2062House Intel and Judiciary \u200bCommittees, including Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), are part of two\u2063 working groups developing Congress&#8217;s plan for the upcoming reauthorization deadline. Some Democrats also \u200dhave concerns about reauthorization due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-garland-rescinds-trump-era-restrictions-on-consent-decrees\/\" title=\"AG Garland rescinds Trump-era restrictions on consent decrees\">civil rights issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a hearing in July, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) expressed his discomfort\u2063 with the \u200cgovernment&#8217;s ability\u200b to search private\u2063 communications without a warrant. However, he stated that he would consider \u2064supporting reauthorization if privacy concerns\u2063 were adequately addressed.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden \u2062administration \u200chas made it clear that Section \u2064702 reauthorization\u200c is \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-athlete-speaks-out-against-bidens-lgbtqa-bill\/\" title=\"Female athlete speaks out against Biden\u2019s LGBTQA+ bill\">top legislative priority<\/a>. They agree with the advisory panel&#8217;s report that the tool is\u2062 crucial for national security and \u200cshould be reauthorized without \u200dnew restrictions that could hinder its \u200deffectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the report, the FBI stated that\u2063 they agree Section 702 should be reauthorized in a way that maintains \u200bits effectiveness and reassures the public of its importance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The 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":1992272,"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-1992271","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\/1992271","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=1992271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}