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FBI Director Christopher Wray<\/a> called Tuesday for the reauthorization of a U.S. government surveillance tool<\/a> set to expire at the end of the year, warning Senate lawmakers that there would be \u201cdevastating\u201d consequences for public safety if the program is allowed to lapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At issue is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the U.S. government to collect without a warrant the communications of targeted foreigners outside the United States. Law enforcement and intelligence officials see the program as vital to combating terror attacks, cyber intrusions, espionage and other foreign threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program, created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is due to expire at the end of this month unless Congress votes to reauthorize it. But Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike have balked at renewing the program in its current form, recommending a slew of reforms in competing legislative proposals<\/a> that are aimed at better safeguarding civil liberties and that are jockeying for support in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thorny path to reauthorization was laid bare during Tuesday\u2019s hearing, when lawmakers from both parties questioned Wray, at times aggressively, over periodic misuse of the program by FBI employees seeking out information about Americans. Though the program enables surveillance only of foreigners located outside the U.S, it also can capture the communications of American citizens and others in the U.S. when those people are in contact with those targeted foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, said that during his 13 years on the committee, he\u2019d pressed multiple FBI directors about civil liberties violations associated with the surveillance program and had repeatedly been given false reassurances about the reforms being put in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery darn one of them has told me the same thing: \u2018Don\u2019t worry about it, we\u2019ve got this taken care of it, we\u2019ve got new procedures, it\u2019s going to be different now\u2019,\u201d Lee said. \u201cIt\u2019s never different. You haven\u2019t changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: \u201cWe have no reason to trust you because you haven\u2019t behaved in a manner that is trustworthy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Whole other level\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fact that Wray devoted a significant portion of his prepared remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee to the issue underscores its importance to the FBI, particularly at a time when the Israel-Hamas war<\/a> has drawn heightened concern about the possibility of extremist violence on U.S. soil<\/a> and contributed to threats being at a \u201cwhole other level\u201d since the Oct. 7 attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think blinding us through either allowing 702 to lapse or amending it in a way that guts its effectiveness would be reckless at best and dangerous and irresponsible at worst,\u201d Wray said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling the authority indispensable, he told the committee, \u201c702 allows us to stay a step ahead of foreign actors located outside the United States who pose a threat to national security. And the expiration of our 702 authorities would be devastating to the FBI\u2019s ability to protect Americans from those threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wray, who took over as director in 2017, said that what made the current climate unique is that \u201cso many of the threats are all elevated at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the 702 program has come under scrutiny in the last year following revelations that FBI analysts improperly searched<\/a> the database of intelligence, including for information about people tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and the racial justice protests of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, center, flanked by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, right, questions FBI Director Christopher Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those concerns have united longtime vocal champions of civil liberties, including Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, as well as Republican supporters of former President Donald Trump who are still angry over surveillance missteps<\/a> made during the Russia investigation of 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wray and the White House have balked at the idea that the FBI should be required to get a warrant before searching the intelligence database for information about Americans and others inside the The FBI director said such a requirement would be both legally unnecessary and would hold up the bureau in trying to disrupt fast-moving national security threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a warrant requirement is the path chosen, Wray said, \u201cWhat if there were a terrorist attack that we had a shot to prevent, but couldn\u2019t take it, because the FBI was deprived of the ability under 702 to look at key information already sitting in our holdings?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One bipartisan proposal from Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the two leaders of the Senate intelligence committee, would impose a more limited requirement, mandating a court order for when the FBI wants to conduct queries on Americans to find evidence of a crime but not for when the FBI is searching the intelligence database for foreign intelligence information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat who said he had not yet made up his mind on how he\u2019d vote, asked Wray whether that more narrow proposal might be more acceptable. The FBI director said that that proposal might provide a viable path forward, but noted that searches of the database for the sole purpose of finding evidence of a crime were very rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, summed up the issue by telling Wray that though \u201cthere was no question\u201d that Section 702 was a \u201ccritical tool for collecting foreign intelligence\u201d he would encourage significant reforms to protect the privacy of \u201cinnocent Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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