House GOP members on the Intelligence Committee reportedly threatened a mutiny if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) went forward with holding a vote on renewing a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this week.

Raj Shah, Johnson’s spokesman, announced on X on Wednesday afternoon that the House would not consider the bill that would revise Section 702 of FISA, which lets the government essentially use surveillance on foreign nationals outside the country without needing a warrant to do so, even if the party on the other side of communications is on American soil. The tool has been credited with preventing national security threats but criticized for spying on U.S. citizens.

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