What the 2024 Section 702 Renewal Actually Changed About US Surveillance
The RISAA extended the warrantless program for two years — and quietly narrowed the FBI's rules while widening who can be searched.
Devon Clarke
The RISAA extended the warrantless program for two years — and quietly narrowed the FBI's rules while widening who can be searched.
Devon Clarke
The Hague summit communique commits allies to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 — but the split between core defense and infrastructure does the real work.
Petra VogelThe CR is a stopgap that freezes last year's budget in place — and its fine print, not the headline date, decides what agencies can and cannot do.
Nathan BrooksStopgap funding freezes weapons programs at last year's levels and bars new starts, and the compliance costs surface long after the shutdown threat that triggered it fades.
Petra VogelWhat changed, what the primary record says, and what remains uncertain.

A shutdown is not a light switch Washington flips on and off. It is a legal chain reaction set in motion by one missed deadline, one 1870s-era statute, and a narrow set of exceptions that decide who keeps working and who does not.
Naomi Bergman



The CR is a stopgap that freezes last year's budget in place — and its fine print, not the headline date, decides what agencies can and cannot do.
Nathan Brooks
