According to the Brennan Center of Justice, Section 702, "Authorizes the government to collect the communications of non-Americans located abroad without a warrant from a court. While this surveillance is supposed to target foreigners, it inevitably sweeps in Americans’ private phone calls, emails, and text messages too."
USA Today has reported that top CIA officials spent most of 2023-2024 urging members of Congress to reauthorize Section 702 of the FISA Act of 1978.
However, CIA officials believe in its current form, Section 702 limits the intelligence community from targeting everyone involved in the fentanyl trade overseas and are advocating lawmakers to expand Section 702 so U.S. spies will have more liberty when it comes to going after criminals engaged in the fentanyl trade.
Many lawmakers are skeptical of expanding Section 702 due to the CIA previously misusing the law to spy on American citizens.
| Sadly, when they say drug lords, we’ve come to understand they mean white Catholics. And once trust is broken… |
How about we start with the drug mules and worry about the cell traffic a bit later ?