{"id":235348,"date":"2026-04-24T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/latest-spy-power-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:00:15","slug":"latest-spy-power-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/latest-spy-power-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest spy power reauthorization bill leaves critics unimpressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/section-702-fisa-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed\/\">Latest spy power reauthorization bill leaves critics unimpressed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/section-702-fisa-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/section-702-fisa-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-24 16:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest attempt to re-up a controversial expiring surveillance law has failed to placate vocal critics on both the left and right of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Two House votes failed last week to extend the spying powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for 18 months without changes, leading to Congress instead passing a 10-day reauthorization. GOP leaders have been scrambling to find a bill they can pass since with the April 30 deadline approaching.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., introduced a bill Thursday to extend it for three years, with a section stating that government officials can\u2019t use Section 702 to target Americans. Under Section 702, U.S. spies and law enforcement agencies can warrantlessly search electronic communications of foreign targets. But those targets are sometimes communicating with U.S. persons, and officials can search the communications database using their personal information.<\/p>\n<p>But critics of the latest Johnson proposal say the language about targeting Americans is window dressing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the whole, it is an empty-calories bill and nothing more that does not engage in reform,\u201d Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the center\u2019s security and surveillance project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said in a call with reporters Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Civil liberties groups have long called for a warrant requirement for U.S. person-based searches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t require a warrant or any kind of court process for U.S. person searches,\u201d said Kia Hamadanchy, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s political advocacy division. \u201cThe main reform just restates existing law\u2026 . It\u2019s also completely irrelevant to the issue at hand, because backdoor searches have never been the product of the government intentionally targeting U.S. persons under 702. The problem is that they are incidentally collecting U.S. person communications and searching the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/section-702-fisa-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest spy power reauthorization bill leaves critics unimpressed https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/section-702-fisa-reauthorization-bill-leaves-critics-unimpressed\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-24 16:52:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233491669.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235350,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235348\/revisions\/235350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}