This Friday at midnight, while the American military may very well be trading fire once again with Iran, the single most productive foreign intelligence collection authority in the U.S. government’s arsenal will expire.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the law that lets our government collect communications of foreign terrorists, spies and hostile governments overseas — will lapse unless Congress acts in the next 48 hours.
That Congress has allowed matters to reach this point, at this moment, is an act of self-sabotage that our enemies could scarcely have improved upon.
Consider the moment. Notwithstanding the notional ceasefire, our military (and those of our partners) remains in open hostilities with Iran and its terrorist proxies.
Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on with civilian deaths rising, and Moscow’s intelligence services continue to target America and our allies.
