Permanently Extend Government Surveillance Powers, Rubio Says
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., urged the U.S. to strengthen its surveillance powers. “The U.S. government should implore American technology companies to cooperate with authorities so that we can better track terrorist activity and monitor terrorist communications as we face the…
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increasing challenge of homegrown terrorists radicalized by little more than what they see on the Internet,” Rubio said in a Fox News column Tuesday. “This year, a new Republican majority in both houses of Congress will have to extend current authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and I urge my colleagues to consider a permanent extension of the counterterrorism tools our intelligence community relies on to keep the American people safe.” Rubio’s urging follows the last Congress’s attempt to overhaul U.S. surveillance programs, with many privacy advocates critical of the government’s bulk collection of metadata. Rubio is debating a run for the White House in 2016.