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The House of Representatives may vote as early as this week to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.

FISA has been used by the intelligence community, including the FBI, to surveil foreigners without a warrant.  Purportedly, Congress wrote this law to protect our national security by allowing spying on non-U.S. threats without a court order.

Section 702 has been controversial since its inception, and it has been highly scrutinized by civil liberties advocates and privacy rights activists.

The government’s ability to collect and analyze the communications of non-U.S. individuals without a warrant has led to the collection of communications of American citizens and raises serious concerns about the indiscriminate and broad nature of the surveillance program, further infringing on the rights of Americans. For example, the FBI has abused Section 702 to conduct warrantless searches against American citizens more than 278,000 times.

FISA was established to review warrant applications for spying activities while maintaining the secrecy necessary to effectively carry out covert operations on foreign entities to aid our national security.

It was never intended to spy on U.S. citizens. 

As Congress considers the reauthorization of Section 702, I remain deeply concerned with the continued abuses of this program.

While everything must be done to prevent future terrorist activities, it should not come at the cost of the privacy and civil rights abuses of innocent American citizens.

Rife with abuse and overreach, I voted against reauthorizing Section 702 in the past.

I want to hear from you: Should I vote in favor of reauthorizing Section 702 of FISA?

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