Attorney General Jeff Sessions and National Intelligence Director Dan Coats on Monday asked top congressional Republicans and Democrats to reauthorize a law that lets the U.S. government target foreign nationals outside the United States.
“We are writing to urge that the Congress promptly reauthorize, in clean and permanent form, Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” Sessions and Coats wrote in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Sessions and Coats cited information gathered under Section 702 of the legislation, which they claimed “produces significant foreign intelligence that is vital to protect the nation against international terrorism and other threats.”
“We look forward to working with you to ensure the speedy enactment of legislation reauthorizing Title VII, without amendment beyond removing the sunset provision,” they wrote.
The provision is set to sunset at the end of the year unless Congress passes legislation to renew it.
Speedy? LOL
Well, how long til this turns into a slapfight where they keep trying to one up each other with who can make the bill more evil?
Doesn’t the FIST law also allow surveillance of US citizens inside the country??
No.
You mean the very surveillance law that these same Republicans yanked otherwise Obama would have been listening and watching all of his political enemies. Now all of a sudden those laws are not part of a fascist regime? Amazing what a little skin tone can do to the white old fat male mind (Republican’s on viagra should not be allowed out…they are sickos)