WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Mike Lee issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) today published a bipartisan op-ed in The New York Times calling for protections against warrantless searches of Americans' private digital data by the federal government. The article, penned by Senators Lee and Dick Durbin (D-IL), urges the passage of their Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act (https://www.lee.senate.gov/2026/2/lee-durbin-introduce-bipartisan-protections-against-warrantless-data-searches) to reform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to stop the rampant abuse of FISA's statutes to target and violate the rights of innocent Americans without a warrant.
"We write as Senators with opposing...