- United States
- N.Y.
- Letter
Vote yes on the Government Surveillance Reform Act, introduced by Senators Wyden and Lee. The FBI currently conducts roughly 200,000 warrantless searches of Americans' communications every year under Section 702. That is not a foreign surveillance program — that is a domestic one, operating without a warrant, without probable cause, and without meaningful oversight.
The GSRA fixes this without gutting foreign intelligence collection. It requires a warrant before the FBI searches data on U.S. persons, closes the loophole that lets agencies buy location and identity data from commercial brokers to dodge the Fourth Amendment, and restores a functioning Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Senator Cotton's push for a clean 18-month extension would lock in every one of these abuses for another year and a half. That is not a compromise — it is a rubber stamp. Pass the GSRA.