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 checking out a tip that a person inside the United States is expressing support for ISIS [Islamic State], asking questions about martyrdom, and posting online about buying weapons. That’s enough to talk to community members about the person and check FBI databases, but you can’t get a warrant at that stage,” Klein said. “If the government had already collected messages between that person and an ISIS terrorist overseas, that’s extremely alarming. We’d want the agent to know that, right away. But requiring a warrant at that stage would mean that the agent couldn’t check those records – records the government already has. You’d never know the information was there.”
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein has been appointed to the congressional FISA Reform Commission by U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Klein brings to the Commission his experience as former Chairman of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) and other national security authorities. The Commission is tasked...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program and Editor of the Texas National Security Review, recently published “On War and Politics” in the fall edition of the Texas National Security Review. Utilizing a historical lens, Greitens emphasizes the “the need to integrate the use of military force with broader tools of strategy and statecraft in service of broader political goals.”...
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...