As FISA turns 45, time to rethink post-9/11 mass surveillance expansion under Section 702

As FISA turns 45, time to rethink post-9/11 mass surveillance expansion under Section 702::Forty-five years ago this month, President Jimmy Carter signed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to restrain U.S. intelligence agencies’ power to spy on Americans. A 1976 Senate investigation had found that the FBI’s COINTELPRO surveillance had committed many actions — particularly against Black liberation groups and other targeted organizations — that were illegal, violent,…