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Patrick G. Eddington

  • Research Fellow, Cato Institute
Annandale
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Civil libertarian. Former USAR officer, CIA analyst, & House staffer. Author. Dog parent. bsky.app/profile/pgeddington.com
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FISA, US intelligence community, surveillance, privacy

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By Patrick G. Eddington
| Homeland Security News Wire
FISA SECTION 702FISA Section 702 Lapsed on Friday—What Now? Published 13 June 2026 Congress was asked to extend, without a warrant requirement, a surveillance program whose compliance record cannot be independently verified, whose oversight bodies have been deliberately disabled, and whose custodians have shown a personal willingness to turn its tools on the press. The program did not go dark on Friday.
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FISA Section 702 Lapse Assured—What Now?

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By Patrick G. Eddington
| Cato Institute
Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. If you’ve followed the Section 702 reauthorization debate this week, you’ve heard a parade of warnings about imminent intelligence darkness. Speaker Mike Johnson says the program cannot go dark. Defense Secretary Hegseth warns that allowing Section 702 to lapse will be “devastating to our national security.” Senator Grassley invokes the Taylor Swift Vienna concert plot.
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The FISA Section 702 Lapse “Going Dark” Myth

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By Patrick G. Eddington
| StoneZONE
Legislative action to avert a lapse in Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority is in the frantic stage now, as it’s expected the Senate will ignore the House 702 reauthorization bill passed yesterday and instead pass a 45-day extension of the existing FISA Section 702 program. But if that Senate extension is not acted on by the House until after midnight tonight, Section 702 could lapse temporarily. And it would be no big deal at all if it did.
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