{"id":21774,"date":"2026-04-23T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-tries-again-to-extend-contested-spy-law\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:47:19","slug":"mike-johnson-tries-again-to-extend-contested-spy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-tries-again-to-extend-contested-spy-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson tries again to extend contested spy law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House GOP leaders on Thursday unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/billsthisweek\/20260427\/RCP_S-FISA_xml.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the text of a new three-year extension<\/a> of a key spy law, as Speaker Mike Johnson tried to overcome ultra-conservative resistance and pass it next week.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 law includes some new oversight and penalties for abuses of the spy authority but stops short of warrant requirements sought by GOP hard-liners.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have pushed back on extending Section 702, which allows warrantless surveillance of foreigners, because of concerns about U.S. citizens being caught up in the program. <\/p>\n<p>The faction that&#8217;s been opposing an extension has not yet signed off on the latest plan. GOP leaders plan to continue talks into the weekend. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP leaders on Thursday unveiled the text of a new three-year extension of a key spy law, as Speaker Mike Johnson tried to overcome ultra-conservative resistance and pass it next week. The proposed reauthorization of the so-called Section 702 law includes some new oversight and penalties for abuses of the spy authority but stops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}