WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
The Senate is delaying a vote on FISA because members are waking up to the fact that this surveillance authority is too dangerous to hand any president without new reforms. Let's face it, if there were the votes to advance this bill today, we'd be voting. When it comes to reauthorizing Section 702, the only path forward is reform.
Let's recount how we got here. Two weeks ago the leadership in the House of Representatives executed the oldest play in the book when it comes to surveillance. They waited until a week before Section 702 was set to expire, said there was no time for debate, and tried to pass a straight reauthorization of the law with no new reforms. What ...