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Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has long held anti-surveillance views. Now she oversees a key surveillance program she once tried to dismantle.
During the 116th Congress, for instance, Gabbard introduced legislation that sought to completely dismantle the Section 702 program, which is considered the “crown jewel” or US intelligence collection and crucial to keeping tabs on foreign threats abroad, including terrorist organizations and cybersecurity threats—exhibiting a stance far more extreme than those traditionally held by lawmakers and civil society organisations who’ve long campaigned for surveillance reform. In response to questions from the US Senate ahead of her confirmation, for example, Gabbard backed the idea of requiring the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to obtain warrants before accessing the communications of Americans swept up by the 702 program. “Declassifying critical information, as well as providing long-overdue basic data about the number of U.S. persons whose communications are collected under this surveillance are essential steps to increasing transparency as the next reauthorization debate approaches.”
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