GOP lawmaker: Congress should consider ending FISA warrants for FBI after ‘widespread violations’

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), Vice Chairman of the House Republican Conference, discusses the letter he and Rep. Jim Jordan sent last week to FBI Director Christopher Wray, addressing the concerns that the FBI was committing “apparent widespread violations of privacy rules when they’re conducting surveillance” by its FISA powers. Saying he was “concerned that the privacy has been tread upon, the American citizens private information being collected and used without their knowledge without proper warrants and proper due process”. The Vice-Chairman says that since one of the key legal authorities for FISA Authority, Section 702, is up for reauthorization next year, “a number of members of Congress”, including himself, “are talking very openly now about whether or not we should reauthorize this”.