Brookings: Path to Section 702 Reauthorization Remains Unclear with 33 Days Left

Brookings analysis finds three competing approaches to Section 702 reauthorization with no clear path to passage in 33 days: Cotton's clean 18-month extension backed by the White House, the bipartisan Wyden-Lee-Lofgren-Davidson GSRA requiring warrants for U.S. person queries, and Durbin's Judiciary Committee reform push. The administration has been slow to campaign for renewal despite calling 702 the IC's most critical collection authority. Brookings warns that a lapse during active wartime operations against Iran would create unprecedented intelligence disruption.