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 by statute with proposing ongoing reforms to FISA, the core legal authority for much U.S. intelligence collection.
Earlier this year, Director Klein testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in its hearing, “Review and Reform: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Executive Accountability.” His written testimony is available here.
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...
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...