Ahead of a House vote to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Congress should carefully consider the proposed reforms and not just push through a half-measure without proper debate or deliberation. Further work is needed to address the serious abuses by intelligence agencies like the FBI to spy on U.S. citizens and the Trump campaign in 2016.

Look no further than the inspector general report released in December 2019 as justification. Even the New York Times called it a “staggeringly dysfunctional and error-ridden process in how the FBI went about obtaining and renewing court permission under FISA to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.”