Director Klein Cited in Durham’s 2016 Election Report

May 23, 2023

Strauss Center Director Adam Klein’s work on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was recently cited in Special Counsel John Durham’s report on investigations related to the 2016 election. The report cited Klein’s recommendations for improving scrutiny of the FBI’s use of FISA. Read more here: https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf.

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  • National Security Law

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  • National Security Law

Strauss Center Director Adam Klein was interviewed for The Christian Science Monitor on "Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines," which discusses the national security and privacy issues surrounding Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of April. “Imagine that, today, an FBI agent is...