Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was quoted in an article in Dispatch on “FISA’s Section 702 Has Lapsed. Now What?”. Section 702’s authority on surveilling non-Americans abroad lapsed for the first time on June 12.
“The relative constitutional clarity that 702 provides should be seen as stabilizing and protective, and so for that reason, I think it’s in everyone’s interest to resolve the various disputes around this as quickly as possible and put it back on firm statutory footing,” Klein said.
After Congress allowed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expire over the weekend, Strauss Center Director Adam Klein provided his perspective to The Christian Science Monitor in their article "Congress lets part of spy law lapse. What's next for counterterrorism efforts?" FISA Section 702 grants the U.S. government the ability to surveil non-U.S. persons abroad without...
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...
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law congratulates Strauss Center Senior Fellow Brock Dahl on his nomination to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State. Brock is one of the nation's foremost national security lawyers.