{"id":970,"date":"2026-11-13T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2026-11-13T19:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T00:14:05","slug":"trump-officials-press-congress-renew-spying-law-lame-duck-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Trump Officials Press Congress to Renew Spying Law in Lame-Duck Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"av-in-brief\"><strong>In brief:<\/strong> Three Trump administration national security officials \u2014 Todd Blanche, Jay Clayton, and John Ratcliffe \u2014 sent a letter to congressional leaders urging an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act within the next month, during the final weeks of Republican-controlled Congress. They described Section 702 as the single most indispensable tool available for keeping the homeland safe, saying it helps detect terrorist plots, cyber intrusions, and weapons proliferation. Senator Ron Wyden argued the matter should be deferred to the next Congress, when Democrats will have control. Privacy and civil liberties advocates in both parties have been pushing for additional limits on the program.<\/p>\n<div class=\"av-faq\">\n<h2>Key questions<\/h2>\n<h3>What is Section 702 and why is it controversial?<\/h3>\n<p>Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a warrantless surveillance law; privacy and civil liberties advocates in both parties want new limits added, such as requiring a judge&#8217;s permission before accessing messages of Americans swept up under the program.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"av-schema\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is Section 702 and why is it controversial?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a warrantless surveillance law; privacy and civil liberties advocates in both parties want new limits added, such as requiring a judge's permission before accessing messages of Americans swept up under the program.\"}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/av-faq --><\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-congress-section-702-surveillance.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times \u2014 Trump Officials Press Congress to Renew Spying Law in Lame-Duck Session<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/two-top-trump-cabinet-officials-go-war-over-china-spy-scandal-amid-explosive-accusations-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/11\/13\/attorney-general-todd-blanche-becomes-the-latest-trump-cabinet-official-moved-onto-a-military-base\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Section 702, surveillance, national security, Congress, FISA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Trump administration national security officials \u2014 Todd Blanche, Jay Clayton, and John Ratcliffe \u2014 sent a letter to congressional leaders urging an\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13,2],"tags":[149,1148,560,1146,1147],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5-eyes","category-donald-j-trump","category-politics","tag-congress","tag-fisa","tag-national-security","tag-section-702","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}