{"id":207988,"date":"2026-01-28T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/senate-judiciary-presses-for-answers-ahead-of-fisa-deadline\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:15:14","slug":"senate-judiciary-presses-for-answers-ahead-of-fisa-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/senate-judiciary-presses-for-answers-ahead-of-fisa-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate judiciary presses for answers ahead of FISA deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senate judiciary presses for answers ahead of FISA deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/trump-administration-section-702-fisa-renewal-senate-judiciary-hearing\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-28 16:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a growing question on Capitol Hill as the expiration of sweeping U.S. government surveillance powers looms: Where is the Trump administration?<\/p>\n

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday on the 2024 law that revised the surveillance authorities known as Section 702, a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Advocates have said that information collected under Section 702 \u2014 under which national security officials controversially can use U.S. citizens\u2019 personal information to query a database for collection of their electronic communications with foreign targets without a warrant \u2014 accounts for 60% of the intelligence included in the President\u2019s Daily Briefing.<\/p>\n

But no Trump administration witnesses testified at the hearing. Nor did any testify at a recent House hearing. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said at Wednesday\u2019s hearing that he wanted to scrutinize the changes to Section 702 under the 2024 law, which came in the wake of significant abuses of the authorities and is set to expire at the end of April.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday I had hoped to hear from witnesses about whether those reforms had been appropriately implemented and whether they\u2019ve been effective, but I can\u2019t ask those questions of officials from the government who are actually implementing those reforms because they\u2019re not here,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are three months from the expiration of Section 702, and the Trump administration, as best as I can discern, still has no official position on it. That is stunning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s unacceptable that with just 90 days [before expiration the administration doesn\u2019t know how it thinks about the program and has nobody here to explain or defend it,\u201d Coons continued.<\/p>\n

The top Democrat on the panel, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, also said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d the administration wasn\u2019t at the hearing. When Durbin led the panel, he had administration witnesses appear before the committee six months…<\/p>\n

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