WARNING! House Schedules Backroom FISA Reauthorization Hearing Without Sunlight, While FISA Court and DOJ Delay…

Posted on February 23, 2020 by sundance

"Against the backdrop of a then pending OIG FISA report, in December of 2019 buried deep in the congressional budget Continuing Resolution (CR) was a short-term extension to reauthorize the FISA “business records provision”, the “roving wiretap” provision, the “lone wolf” provision, and the more controversial bulk metadata provisions [Call Detail Records (CDR)], all parts of the Patriot Act."

"As a result of the FISA CR inclusion the terminal deadline was pushed to March 15, 2020:"

... there is now a confluence of events highlighting a likelihood congress and the intelligence apparatus writ large want to reauthorize the FISA surveillance and collection authorities without further sunlight and without public input. Here’s what’s going on…."

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/23/warning-house-schedules-backroom-fisa-reauthorization-hearing-without-sunlight-while-fisa-court-and-doj-delay/