FBI attempts to extend the warrantless surveillance law outside the US

according to the report of the international group Tasnim News Agency, “Christopher Ray” director of the FBI today, the committee The judiciary is pressing the Senate to extend the government’s authority to conduct warrantless surveillance outside the United States.

According to this report, At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the FBI director is expected to address threats from Iran and China and discuss the sweeping surveillance powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires at the end of this month. It is necessary for the national security of the United States.

In addition, Ray stated in the hearing of this committee, which is led by Democrats, that denying F BI’s authority to conduct warrantless surveillance outside US soil is a form of unilateral disarmament.

According to this report, the surveillance power The government has come under intense scrutiny in recent years from lawmakers on both the right and the left, particularly the power of federal law enforcement to investigate information about American citizens as part of surveillance of foreign targets.

This is despite the fact that a bipartisan group of American lawmakers last month passed legislation to impose new restrictions on the investigation of the communications of American citizens and ban investigations behind introduced a veil in which foreign intelligence arguments refer to spying on Americans. Khas said that the information collected under this law is necessary to counter cyber threats and thwart foreign intelligence operations directed against Washington.

In addition, Ray intends to tell this Senate committee that the FBI is a good watchdog for this use of this power. Earlier, referring to these reforms, he said that the FBI is currently responding to criticisms related to the use of this executive law.

> January faces the Capitol, an investigation into Joe Biden’s son’s business dealings and allegations that the FBI pressured the media to censor conservatives.

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