[20180108]LSB10050_随着重新授权期限的临近国会考虑对FISA信息查询进行改革.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Congress Considers Reform to Queries of FISA Information as Reauthorization Deadline Approaches Updated January 8, 2018 UPDATE: The House Rules Committee has announced a meeting to consider H.R. 4478 on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 (as an amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 139). The text of the original post follows below. Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is currently scheduled to sunset on January 19, 2018. Of the expiring provisions, Section 702, which authorizes “programmatic” surveillance of non-U.S. persons while they are outside of the United States, has received the greatest amount of attention, possibly because Section 702 provides the Attorney General (AG) and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) more leeway to authorize surveillance than other FISA provisions. Generally, before the government may conduct electronic surveillance under FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) must issue an order finding, inter alia, that probable cause exists to believe that the target of the proposed surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of