FISA is up for reauthorization this year, but Lee and other senators had questions about how the law is used on Americans without a warrant
A law used by U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor the communications of American citizens should not be reauthorized without reform and additional oversight, Utah Sen. Mike Lee said at a hearing Tuesday.
“We’ve got an opportunity this year to make necessary reforms and we must do it,” Lee said at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, after accusing the FBI of showing a “shocking disregard for Americans’ constitutional rights and civil liberties.”
Intelligence officials at the hearing spoke in favor of the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — FISA — which will expire at the end of this year unless it is reapproved.
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