Congress still can’t decide what to do about warrantless surveillance
Congress still can’t decide what to do about warrantless surveillance
国会仍无法就无证监视问题达成共识
Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as director of national intelligence has thrown a wrench in Republicans’ reauthorization plans. 特朗普任命比尔·普尔特（Bill Pulte）为国家情报总监，这给共和党的重新授权计划带来了阻碍。
The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from now on June 12th, and legislators seem no closer to reaching a deal. If this sounds like deja vu, it’s because we’ve been here before. Congress reauthorized Section 702 in late April — but only for 45 days, so lawmakers could negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping authority. 《外国情报监视法》（FISA）第702条款的重新授权截止日期将于一周后的6月12日到来，但立法者似乎仍未达成协议。如果这听起来似曾相识，那是因为我们之前已经经历过这种情况。国会在4月底重新授权了第702条款，但仅维持了45天，以便立法者能够就这一备受争议的窃听授权进行改革谈判。
“There were no reformers in any of the conversations that happened. Full stop,” Sean Vitka, the executive director of Demand Progress, said on a press call Friday afternoon, hours after the Senate voted 52 to 47 against a deal that would have renewed Section 702 for three years, which would have required sixty votes. Democrats voted against the plan due to President Donald Trump’s announcement on Thursday that Bill Pulte — a businessman with no security clearance — would serve as acting director of national intelligence. They were joined by seven Republicans. “在所有进行的对话中，没有任何改革派参与。句号。”Demand Progress执行董事肖恩·维特卡（Sean Vitka）在周五下午的新闻发布会上表示。就在几小时前，参议院以52票对47票否决了一项将第702条款延长三年的协议（该协议本需60票才能通过）。民主党人投票反对该计划，原因是唐纳德·特朗普总统周四宣布，没有安全许可的商人比尔·普尔特将担任国家情报代理总监。此外，还有七名共和党人也投了反对票。
As the head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Pulte would oversee 18 agencies. In a Friday interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump suggested that he wants Pulte to gut ODNI. “We’ve made the Department of Education much smaller, and likewise, this should be much smaller,” Trump said. According to the Journal, Trump suggested Pulte fire intelligence staff who served under the Obama and Biden administrations. 作为国家情报总监办公室（ODNI）的负责人，普尔特将监管18个情报机构。在周五接受《华尔街日报》采访时，特朗普暗示他希望普尔特削减ODNI的规模。“我们已经大幅缩减了教育部，同样地，这个机构也应该大幅缩减，”特朗普说道。据《华尔街日报》报道，特朗普建议普尔特解雇曾在奥巴马和拜登政府任职的情报人员。
Critics of a so-called “clean” extension of Section 702 — one without reforms like a warrant requirement for queries involving US persons — have cited Trump’s well-documented abuses of its surveillance powers. Pulte’s appointment has only made matters worse for the administration, which has been urging Republican legislators to reauthorize Section 702 without reforms. 对于所谓的“纯净版”第702条款延期（即不包含针对涉及美国公民的查询需获得搜查令等改革措施），批评人士援引了特朗普滥用监视权力的确凿记录。普尔特的任命让本届政府的处境更加艰难，此前政府一直敦促共和党立法者在不进行改革的情况下重新授权第702条款。