Is 702 Good for Spying, Spying Is Bad, Therefore It's Bad?

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Natalie Portman: 702 is the single largest contributor to the president's daily brief. She asks what would you do if you were President Biden or congressional Democrats? "I don't care about the optics but like to try and sort out what they need to sort out," she says of Congress. The NSA will be screaming their lungs out at Congress desperately playing with them, Portman adds.

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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