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How Trump's 'Spygate' lies could prompt a win for Americans' privacy rights

As House members returned to Washington this week, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was already struggling to rally his caucus around a bill to extend a 9/11-era surveillance program. The effort to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 had already split the House GOP for months. but a compromise of sorts was finally about to hit the floor on Wednesday, just days before the program is set to expire. 

And then former President Donald Trump weighed in.

“KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” he wrote on Truth Social, resurrecting one of his longstanding false claims about the 2016 election. And the bill being debated didn’t concern all of FISA, just Section 702. But Trump’s post was enough though to bolster a revolt among conservative Republicans, 19 of whom voted with Democrats to block the reauthorization bill from coming up for debate. For once, though, the GOP’s disarray and obedience to Trump fortuitously may be put to good use. While Trump’s “Spygate” narrative remains false, it may be harnessed to improve a broken part of America’s intelligence gathering system.

This is a preview of  Hayes Brown's latest article. Read the full column here.

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