re: So we love FISA now?

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It’s a necessary evil when you have radical Islamic terrorists overseas plotting jihad against the United States.

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It’s a necessary evil when you have radical Islamic terrorists overseas plotting jihad against the United States.

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Nothing like secret courts in a supposedly free country. 

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Tell us the difference between the 2 FISA's that Trump talks about.

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Know the difference between FISA Title 1, the Domestic Collection, and FISA 702, Foreign Collection.

FISA Section 702 is the legal authority that lets U.S. intelligence agencies (NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.) compel U.S. tech/telecom companies (Google, Meta, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, etc.) to hand over the communications of specific non-U.S. persons located outside the United States who are suspected of terrorism, espionage, cyber threats, weapons proliferation, or other foreign-intelligence matters.

It does not require an individual warrant for each foreign target (only annual approval by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for the overall procedures). However, it can incidentally collect data on Americans who communicate with those targets — and that incidental data can later be queried/searched by the government.

If the authority lapses on April 20 without extension:

- Intelligence collection on foreign threats would face immediate gaps or stop entirely in some channels. U.S. companies could refuse to continue cooperating because their legal protections under 702 would disappear.

- The intelligence community and military would lose real-time access to critical foreign communications, blinding analysts to plots involving China, Russia, Iran, ISIS/al-Qaeda affiliates, fentanyl networks, cyber attacks, and more.

- Trump highlights the direct military impact: troops overseas rely on this intelligence for operational success and force protection. Without it, the U.S. would be less able to detect threats to service members or disrupt enemy plans.

- Domestically, it has helped stop numerous foreign-inspired terror attacks and other threats. A lapse would increase the risk that the next plot goes undetected until it’s too late.

That is exactly why Trump is pushing so hard for a clean, fast extension — he and the administration argue that any delay or controversial amendments (such as requiring warrants to query Americans’ incidental data) could jeopardize the program’s effectiveness or cause it to expire before a longer-term deal is reached. Proponents say the national security costs of even a short lapse are simply too high with so many credible threats.

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