Feds Sued for Dodging Five Years of FOIA Requests Aimed at Uncovering True Extent of Spy Programs

‘We need Congress as a watchdog to look not only at 702 but at everything that’s been going on since 9/11,’ one analyst tells the Sun. ‘There’s no larger effort here.’

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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is due to expire on April 19 after Speaker Johnson punted on the issue in December AP

A new lawsuit filed against the National Security Agency by the Cato Institute is looking to crack open the books on surveillance programs dating back to the mid-1990s in an effort to disclose the scope of surveillance activities from the pre-9/11 era to the present day.

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