On September 3, Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Thomas S. Warrick published an article in The Hill on the importance of renewing section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Before Dec. 31, Congress should renew, with reforms, section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes targeted collection of communications by foreign terrorists and other foreign adversaries.
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