Reauthorizing Section 702 - I Don't Understand, You Know?

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Section 702 is due to expire at the end of 2020, it's one of these time bomb provisions. Last time it went through a reauthorization, we had this massive car wreck, which was caused by a Donald Trump tweeting that he opposed it. I do think just the level of right-wing paranoia about the deep state and the intelligence community will cause a major fracas and discontent with the idea of investing major powers in it.

Matt Tait is a cybersecurity expert who has worked both in the private sector and for the British government at GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security, and cyber agency. He's also a Lawfare contributor. Like a lot of us, Tait has spent the last several months thinking about Ukraine, and Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes had cybersecurity questions for him. They talked about why the Ukrainian internet is still functioning and why the Russians have been so ineffective in the cyber arena. They also talked about whether U.S. support for Ukraine is threatened with Republicans in control of the House and what the Biden administration is going to do about Section 702, which is scheduled to expire at the end of next year.

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