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Congress Passes 45-Day FISA 702 Extension

Congress Passes 45-Day FISA 702 Extension

Congress Passes 45-Day FISA 702 Extension
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Section 702 is a vital national security tool that has been dramatically cleaned up since 2024 reforms — noncompliant queries dropped from 57,000 to fewer than 8,000, and the compliance rate hit 98.6%. Adding warrant requirements would slow down time-sensitive searches and shift accountability away from officials who should own those decisions. Letting partisan opposition kill this program puts American lives at genuine risk.

Congress just handed the government another warrantless surveillance extension, breaking years of promises to protect Americans' privacy. Both parties talk reform but vote to preserve unchecked spying powers — 702 has been abused hundreds of thousands of times and nothing meaningful has changed. The only honest measure of a politician is the voting record, and on this one, nearly everyone failed.

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