Three Competing FISA 702 Vehicles With 31 Days to Expiration and No Clear Path

Brookings analysis identifies three competing legislative vehicles for Section 702 reauthorization before the April 20 sunset: Cotton's 18-month clean extension, the bipartisan SAFE Act (Lee-Durbin) requiring partial warrant requirements, and Wyden's Government Surveillance Reform Act banning warrantless data broker purchases. Republicans control all three chambers but the administration's position remains unstated, and the Iran war has scrambled traditional surveillance hawk/dove alignments.