Attorney General William Barr is promising a clean extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which has three key provisions set to expire on March 15
Attorney General William Barr told Senate Republicans on Tuesday that the Trump administration could support a clean extension of expiring surveillance laws — and that he could make changes on his own to satisfy President Donald Trump and allies who have railed against surveillance of the 2016 campaign, according to senators at a party briefing.
Sens. Mike Lee and Rand Paul , according to two people familiar with the meeting. Barr told Lee his criticisms of surveillance law is dangerous while Paul said that Americans shouldn’t be subject to secret FISA courts, one of the people said. Neither Senate Republicans nor Barr are likely to accept those changes anytime soon. And those dynamics have some fretting the programs will briefly expire, just as they did in 2015 when Paul and McConnell clashed over reforming the much-criticized bulk data collection program.
“You’ve got three provisions to deal with. I think it’d be smart to keep them in place. It would give us some time to work on FISA writ large, we’ve got three years,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham , who is preparingBarr “indicated his desire to do whatever he can to prevent the corruption and the abuses that we saw in the Crossfire Hurricane,” said Sen. John Cornyn , referring to the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
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