{"id":3360,"date":"2026-05-05T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:25:22","slug":"wyden-to-force-declassification-of-secret-court-opinion-on-fisa-serious-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3360","title":{"rendered":"Wyden to Force Declassification of Secret Court Opinion on FISA \u201cSerious Abuses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Thursday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LauraEWeiss16\/status\/2049873121910440081\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">proposed<\/a> a short-term extension of FISA in exchange for declassifying a major opinion from the top government surveillance court, which revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/new-fisa-court-opinion-reveals-continuing-violations-fbi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">continuing violations<\/a> of the controversial authority. Wyden\u2019s proposal follows the passage of House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s (R-LA) <a href=\"https:\/\/demandprogress.org\/42-dems-vote-for-trumps-surveillance-agenda-as-fisa-fight-moves-to-senate\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bad faith FISA bill<\/a> that likely will not be taken up by the Senate. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) then objected to Wyden\u2019s proposal, likely catalyzing an unprecedented, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/09\/us\/politics\/section-702-surveillance-fisa.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">if illusory<\/a>, statutory sunset of Section 702. Cotton is perhaps the most vociferous surveillance hawk making the misleading claim that any statutory sunset of Section 702 would amount to \u201cgoing dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Demand Progress is part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/demandprogress.org\/civil-society-leaders-applaud-capac-chc-cpc-chairs-for-supporting-fisa-privacy-reforms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan coalition<\/a> urging Congress to close loopholes in the law that allow the government to bypass the courts to surveil Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a statement from <strong>Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTom Cotton and the Senate should accept Sen. Wyden\u2019s deal if they don\u2019t want Section 702 to expire. As we\u2019ve seen over and over again in the House, any path forward that lacks meaningful privacy reforms is doomed to fail. Further, the American people deserve, and policymakers need to see, what violations the FISA court found. It is alarming that those who are fearmongering most over the statutory expiration of Section702 are now embracing it to hide the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Sen.Cotton is trying to keep his colleagues and Americans in the dark about how the government is violating the law to surveil us\u2014the very same law some claim is never abused. Senators opposing this deal risk plunging us into uncharted waters, including a sunset of FISA and cancellation of the upcoming recess to sort this all out. Unlike Speaker Johnson and Tom Cotton, Sen. Wyden is offering a viable path forward, instead of incompetent, bad faith machinations to thwart any votes on real reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed a short-term extension of FISA in exchange for declassifying a major opinion from the top government surveillance court, which revealed continuing violations of the controversial authority. Wyden\u2019s proposal follows the passage of House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s (R-LA) bad faith FISA bill that likely will not be taken up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}