House Releases Bill to Reauthorize Warrantless Spy Powers

The House has released a bill to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

The Justice Department building on a foggy morning in Washington, on Dec. 9, 2019. Samuel Corum/Getty Images

The House released a measure on Feb. 12 that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is meant to target noncitizens abroad but has, at times, swept up Americans in the process.

The legislation makes a series of wide reforms to the FISA spying authority, which has come under increasingly heavy scrutiny since it was last reauthorized in 2018.