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美国11岁男童涉嫌谋杀5岁弟弟，被控一级谋杀罪 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月19日 21:32

美国科罗拉多州一名11岁男孩，因涉嫌杀害自己5岁弟弟而被控谋杀。 （档案示意图）

美国媒体报道，美国科罗拉多州一名11岁男孩因涉嫌杀害5岁弟弟而被控谋杀。

法新社引述美国媒体报道，3月11日，这名5岁男童的尸体在科罗拉多州丹佛郊区的一处住宅内被发现。

阿拉帕霍县警长办公室上周透露，嫌犯是受害者的哥哥，死亡原因仍在调查中。

警长办公室说：“由于受害者和嫌疑人均为未成年人，我们将限制公布的信息资料。”

地方检察官办公室星期二（17日）说，这名11岁男孩已正式被控一级谋杀罪。检方还补充说，在科罗拉多州，青少年案件记录不向公众公开。

警长布朗在早前的声明中说：“我们向这两名年幼男孩的家人，以及社区中所有为此感到悲痛的人致以深切慰问。”

布朗说：“涉及儿童被杀的案件，是我们警员和调查人员所面对的最艰难案件之一……我们知道，这样的悲剧不仅会影响到当事家庭，也会影响整个社区的同学、老师和邻居。”

美国科罗拉多11岁男孩被控谋杀5岁弟弟

2026-03-19T13:32:02.000Z / 联合早报

美国科罗拉多州一名11岁男孩，因涉嫌杀害自己5岁弟弟而被控谋杀。 （档案示意图）

美国媒体报道，美国科罗拉多州一名11岁男孩因涉嫌杀害5岁弟弟而被控谋杀。

法新社引述美国媒体报道，3月11日，这名5岁男童的尸体在科罗拉多州丹佛郊区的一处住宅内被发现。

阿拉帕霍县警长办公室上周透露，嫌犯是受害者的哥哥，死亡原因仍在调查中。

警长办公室说：“由于受害者和嫌疑人均为未成年人，我们将限制公布的信息资料。”

地方检察官办公室星期二（17日）说，这名11岁男孩已正式被控一级谋杀罪。检方还补充说，在科罗拉多州，青少年案件记录不向公众公开。

警长布朗在早前的声明中说：“我们向这两名年幼男孩的家人，以及社区中所有为此感到悲痛的人致以深切慰问。”

布朗说：“涉及儿童被杀的案件，是我们警员和调查人员所面对的最艰难案件之一……我们知道，这样的悲剧不仅会影响到当事家庭，也会影响整个社区的同学、老师和邻居。”

ICE custody deaths are at a 2-decade high. An Afghan refugee who helped U.S. forces is one of the latest to die.

2026-03-19T08:28:00-0400 / CBS News

Dallas — On March 13, Afghan immigrant Naseer Paktiawal received a call from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which had just arrested his brother in North Texas. The first thing his brother told him was that he wasn’t feeling well.

“I told [the agent] my brother needs help. He’s not feeling good. He’s feeling pain in his body,” he told CBS News in Richardson, Texas. “He told me, don’t worry about it. We have a nurse. We will take care of him. And he hung up the phone on me.”

Less than 24 hours later, he was told his brother, 41-year-old Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, had died.

Paktiawal, who was evacuated from Afghanistan during the U.S. military withdrawal from the country in the summer of 2021, was the 12th person to die this year while in ICE custody. Two days later, a 19-year-old Mexican man died by presumed suicide. The 13 deaths are more than triple the number that had died by this point last year. In 2025, 31 ICE detainees died, a two-decade high, according to a CBS News analysis of ICE records.

The rising death toll comes as ICE’s detention population hit record highs amid President Trump’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration. As of early February, ICE was holding more than 68,000 people in detention centers across the U.S., agency figures show.

But even after accounting for the number of people in detention each year, 2025 still had the highest death rate — 5.6 people per 10,000 detainees — since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a CBS News analysis found.

Paktiawal had no pre-existing medical conditions, according to his family and ICE, and his sudden death is still under investigation. His family said he fought alongside the U.S. military in Afghanistan for roughly a decade.

“He was a hero,” Imrain Paktiawal, 12, one of his sons, told CBS News. “And he will be always a hero.”

Paktiawal is the first Afghan national to die in ICE custody since 2008. ICE stated Paktiawal was arrested in a targeted enforcement operation after local arrests on charges of fraud and theft. Those cases had not been adjudicated at the time of his death, according to local officials.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said Paktiawal entered the U.S. legally through the parole immigration policy, which allows officials to quickly admit immigrants on humanitarian grounds. But DHS said that status, which is temporary in nature, expired last August.

ICE detains people the government is seeking to deport, such as those accused of being in the U.S. illegally and other noncitizens determined to be deportable, including because of criminal offenses.

ICE detention facilities have long been criticized for providing inadequate medical care. In recent months, congressional Democrats have alleged human rights abuses, including medical neglect, in ICE detention, and demanded more oversight from the Department of Homeland Security. Multiple groups have filed lawsuits alleging inhumane conditions in ICE detention.

ICE has repeatedly denied reports of substandard conditions at its detention sites.

Some detainees who died last year complained to family members before their deaths that they were unable to obtain proper care.

Isidro Perez, who was 75 and had heart disease when he was arrested in Key Largo, Florida, last June, told his former partner he was having chest pains and wasn’t getting his medication while in detention. ICE’s report on Perez alleged a physician ordered his medication while in detention. Perez died on June 26, three weeks after he was detained.

Maksym Chernyak, a Ukrainian national who died in February 2025 of a stroke, told his wife and cellmate that he was refused immediate medical care and medication despite showing symptoms including heart palpitations and blood in his stool, according to Human Rights Watch.

ICE’s own death reports also show instances of delayed care. Brayan Rayo-Garzon, a 27 year old from Colombia who died by suicide in April 2025, had a mental health appointment that was rescheduled twice. Before he had the appointment, he was found unresponsive in his cell. Leo Cruz Silva was 34 when he died by suicide last October, two days after ICE medical staff documented he was experiencing a mental health crisis.

Rayo-Garzon and Cruz Silva are among seven detainees who died of apparent suicides since the start of 2025. Another detainee’s death was ruled a homicide: ICE agents held 55-year old Campos Lunas down until he stopped breathing. An ICE report on his death stated guards were intervening to prevent him from harming himself.

ICE has long denied allegations that it provides inadequate medical care. With each death the agency announces, it states that “Comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment individuals arrive and throughout the entirety of their stay.”

“This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives,” ICE wrote in multiple press releases.

But Naseer Paktiawal believes his brother would still be alive today had he not been arrested.

“I want the answer for his children, for my family, for this community,” he said. “What happened to my brother?”

Mullin survives bruising hearing with Dem help, inches one step closer to becoming next DHS chief

By Alex Miller | Fox News
Published March 19, 2026 9:50am EDT

A Senate Democrat proved the decisive vote to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to the next round of his confirmation journey after an explosive hearing.

That’s because Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, vowed not to support Mullin, whom he contended was “unfit” for the role.

Mullin countered that if he had a problem with somebody, he would say it to their face. More so, he hoped to prove to Paul and Senate Democrats on the panel that he was the right pick for the job.

‘TELL ME TO MY FACE’: TOP MOMENTS IN MULLIN’S HEATED CONFIRMATION HEARING TO BE TRUMP’S NEXT DHS CHIEF

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., gestures during a hearing.(Olivier Contreras/Getty Images)

“I’m going to earn the job, I won’t fail you,” Mullin said. “I won’t back down from a challenge. And I’ll also admit when I’m wrong. I’m not perfect. I don’t claim to be perfect. I make mistakes just like anybody else. But mistakes, if you own them, you can learn from them and you can move ahead. And I’ll make that commitment to you.”

And, like several times on the Senate floor, Paul and Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., switched positions on their votes. Fetterman was the only Democrat on the panel to back Mullin, and without his vote, Republicans’ plans to sprint through the confirmation process would have been dealt a stiff blow.

Fetterman acknowledged that he could be the difference-maker after the hearing.

SCHUMER WEAPONIZES MULLIN NOMINATION TO DEMAND DHS OVERHAUL, SAYS ‘ROT’ GOES BEYOND NOEM

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., departs following a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7, 2026.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I came here and committed to come here with an open mind, and I’m going to continue to do that,” Fetterman said. “It’s not going to be about gotcha moments for me. My experience with you has been consistent and professional.”

Mullin’s confirmation to become the next Department of Homeland Security secretary will now head to the Senate floor in the coming days and will require just a simple majority vote for him to be given the green light for the position.

But several Senate Democrats may not support him because of the ongoing fight over the DHS shutdown. Democrats have demanded stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) throughout the shutdown battle.

“I will not be supporting Sen. Mullin’s nomination should it come before the Senate,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said. “The problems at DHS, especially at ICE and CBP, run far deeper than just who is in charge.”

Still, Mullin survived a sometimes jovial, sometimes grueling back-and-forth during the hearing. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., believed that once out of committee, Mullin would have broad support across the Senate.

“Obviously, [Wednesday’s] hearing sounds like it got a little spicy at times,” Thune said. “But at the end of the day, it comes back to the job, and it comes back to the right person for the job. And I think that Markwayne is the right person.”

MULLIN FACES DEMOCRAT GRILLING IN FIRST HURDLE TO LEAD DHS AMID SHUTDOWN FIGHT

Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., grilled Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., during his confirmation hearing to become the next DHS chief.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

[Thursday’s vote] nearly didn’t happen, however, after Paul and Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., the top-ranking Democrat on the panel, clashed over travel the lawmaker took years ago.

The duo wanted to meet and hear about the travel, which Mullin said happened while he was still in the House but couldn’t be detailed publicly, in a classified setting. Ultimately, Paul didn’t even go to the classified meeting.

A spokesperson for Paul told Fox News Digital that the lawmaker already knew how he was going to vote but wanted to facilitate the classified meeting to “make sure everyone else got the information they needed.”

And while the personal rancor between Paul and Mullin was explosive, it was not enough to sink his chances of becoming the next DHS chief.

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Paul said he would not support Mullin ahead of the confirmation vote, in part because he wouldn’t apologize for saying that the assault on Paul by a neighbor in 2017 was “justified.” He argued that Mullin’s inability to apologize, along with his previous outburst during a hearing with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, showed he lacked the mindset needed to lead DHS.

“We’re in the midst, I think, of a crisis where there needs to be more direction from the top,” Paul said. “And a guy who brawls, a guy who can’t even say he’s sorry about wishing violence on me and really applauding the attack that happened on me — can’t come to say that. I don’t know how he could, from my point of view, be a [leader of ICE or Border Patrol.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

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美财长：美国或对在途伊朗石油解除制裁

2026年3月19日 22:05 / 联合早报

美国财政部长贝森特星期四说，美国可能很快解除对滞留在油轮上的伊朗石油的制裁，以增加全球供应并降低油价。

贝森特在接受福克斯商业频道采访时说：“未来几天，我们可能会对海上的伊朗石油解除制裁。数量约为1亿4000万桶……根据不同的计算方式，这相当于10天到两周的供应量。”

他说，将受制裁的伊朗原油纳入全球供应有助于在未来10到14天内抑制油价上涨。过去两周的大部分时间里，由于伊朗封锁霍尔木兹海峡并袭击油轮，油价一直维持在每桶100美元（约128新元）以上。

近期，美国也暂时允许出售滞留在油轮上的受制裁俄罗斯原油。据财政部称，这将为全球供应增加1亿3000万桶原油。

贝森特也说，美国将采取其他措施增加供应，包括单方面释放战略石油储备，规模将超过七国集团（G7）上周协调释放的4亿桶战略石油储备。

美或解除伊朗石油制裁：增加全球供应，降低油价 | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月19日 22:05

美国财政部长贝森特说，美国也将采取其他措施增加供应，包括单方面释放战略石油储备。 （法新社）

美国财政部长贝森特星期四说，美国可能很快解除对滞留在油轮上的伊朗石油的制裁，以增加全球供应并降低油价。

贝森特在接受福克斯商业频道采访时说：“未来几天，我们可能会对海上的伊朗石油解除制裁。数量约为1亿4000万桶……根据不同的计算方式，这相当于10天到两周的供应量。”

他说，将受制裁的伊朗原油纳入全球供应有助于在未来10到14天内抑制油价上涨。过去两周的大部分时间里，由于伊朗封锁霍尔木兹海峡并袭击油轮，油价一直维持在每桶100美元（约128新元）以上。

近期，美国也暂时允许出售滞留在油轮上的受制裁俄罗斯原油。据财政部称，这将为全球供应增加1亿3000万桶原油。

贝森特也说，美国将采取其他措施增加供应，包括单方面释放战略石油储备，规模将超过七国集团（G7）上周协调释放的4亿桶战略石油储备。

Satellite companies curb access to Mideast imagery over concern it could be used “by adversarial actors”

March 19, 2026 / 9:06 AM EDT / CBS News

In a marked shift, commercial satellite companies that provide open-source data used widely by many, including journalists and researchers, have restricted access to images showing Iran and the wider Middle East, including areas where there are U.S. military sites that have been targeted by Iran’s retaliatory fire.

Planet Labs, which regularly provides imagery used by news organizations including CBS News, said earlier this month that it was delaying the release of all new imagery of Iran, the Persian Gulf, U.S.-allied bases, and “existing conflict zones” for 14 days.

In a note to customers sent on March 9 and shared with CBS News by a spokesperson, Planet Labs said there were “genuine concerns of use of Planet data over Iran, as well as an extended window of risk for recent imagery.”

The company “has decided to take additional, proactive measures to ensure our imagery is not tactically leveraged by adversarial actors to target allied and NATO-partner personnel and civilians,” it said.

Such satellite imagery has been vital for journalists covering conflicts for years, notably amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The images taken from space have provided evidence for investigations into widespread destruction, population movements, and even massacres, especially in places that are remote or inaccessible due to fighting on the ground.

One such case is the deadly missile strike on a school in Minab, in southern Iran in the first hours of the conflict. Satellite imagery was key in identifying that the Feb. 28 strike, which a preliminary assessment found was likely carried out by the U.S., hit buildings not only belonging to the IRGC Navy compound but also severely damaged the school, where Iran says 175 people were killed.

CBS News analysis of satellite images provided by Planet Labs shows that a girls school in Minab, southern Iran, was likely not the only target hit in a strike on Feb. 28, 2026. Iran claims more than 170 people were killed. Before and after images of the area from Planet Labs show buildings that appear to be within the compound of a known Iranian military base that was destroyed, along with another building in which a hole can be seen in the roof on the later photo. Planet Labs PBC via Storyful/CBS News analysis

The other large firm often relied on for satellite updates is Vantor, formerly called Maxar, which currently has controls in place on imagery from parts of the Middle East, a spokesperson said.

Those controls can include limiting who can request new images or purchase historical imagery, “over areas where U.S., NATO, and other allied and partner forces are actively operating, as well as over areas that are being actively targeted by adversaries,” the company said. Vantor has restricted images of U.S. bases and other sensitive sites for years.

Vantor said it remained committed to supporting “responsible journalism” by proactively providing imagery of Iran and the Middle East to journalists around the world, while maintaining safeguards.

Both companies have active U.S. government contracts.

Planet said it consulted with both government and external experts, while Vantor stressed that its decisions were not mandated by any government.

In its statement to customers, Planet said it recognized “that timely data is important to your operations” and did not take the decision lightly, while saying it intended “to resume standard service as soon as safety and security conditions permit.”

伊朗袭击波斯湾能源设施：报复行动升级油市 | 联合早报

李秈霓 发布/2026年3月19日 22:14

社交媒体上的视频截图显示，伊朗南帕尔斯天然气田周三遭袭击，现场冒着浓烟烈火。 （路透社）

（德黑兰/华盛顿综合电）以色列空袭伊朗南帕尔斯气田后，伊朗连接两天对波斯湾邻国的石油与天然气设施发动报复袭击。这标志着美以伊冲突的重大升级，预料将加剧全球能源市场动荡。

卡塔尔周三（3月18日）说，拉斯拉凡（Ras Laffan）工业城当天因伊朗导弹袭击起火，造成大面积损坏。这个工业城是全球最大液化天然气生产设施的所在地。

卡塔尔随即限伊朗驻卡塔尔武官与相关人员在24小时内离境。卡塔尔外交部称，伊朗屡次侵犯卡塔尔主权和安全，若伊朗继续敌对做法，就将采取进一步措施。

阿联酋周四（19日）说，拦截来袭导弹产生的碎片坠落后，对哈卜尚（Habshan）天然气设施和巴卜（Bab）油田造成影响，其中哈卜尚设施暂时关闭。同日，科威特国家石油公司的两座炼油厂先后遭无人机袭击并起火。

沙特阿拉伯国防部说，一架无人机周四坠毁在红海港市延布（Yanbu）的Samref炼油厂。当天较早时，沙特拦截一枚瞄准延布港的弹道导弹。沙特外长费萨尔说，沙特保留对伊朗采取军事行动的权利，并称两国之间的信任已完全破裂。

伊朗警告继续攻打敌方盟友能源设施

伊朗军方周四说，对能源基础设施遇袭的报复行动还在继续，警告敌人不要再犯下大错，否则“对你们和盟友能源基础设施的攻击将持续，直至这些设施被彻底摧毁”。

伊朗在南帕尔斯天然气田的设施周三遭受袭击。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队随即宣布，沙特、阿联酋和卡塔尔三国的能源设施成为合法打击目标。

德国国际政治和安全事务研究所访问学者阿齐兹告诉彭博社，南帕尔斯气田对伊朗电力生产和工业活动至关重要，这次袭击是要削弱伊朗经济基础设施，限制它继续作战的能力。

分析：油气生产严重受干扰 价格并非暂时飙涨

南帕尔斯气田与卡塔尔北方气田（North Dome）共同组成世界最大天然气田。卡塔尔谴责，对南帕尔斯气田的袭击“危险且不负责任”。

随着市场对石油供应紧缺的担忧加剧，欧洲天然气期货价格周四飙涨35%，油价则上涨10%。

美国副总统万斯周三说，白宫将在接下来24至48小时内宣布额外措施，应对不断上涨的油价。

英国智库Verdant联合主任米德韦预计，油气价格飙升并非暂时的。他告诉半岛电视台：“除了霍尔木兹海峡被封锁，现在油气特别是天然气的基本生产也受到严重干扰……目前看来，价格将大幅上涨。”

特朗普：美国并未参与袭击南帕尔斯气田

美国总统特朗普称，对南帕尔斯气田的袭击是以色列实施的，美国和卡塔尔未参与，且毫不知情。此前有消息称，以色列袭击南帕尔斯气田得到美国批准。

特朗普说，以色列不会再袭击南帕尔斯气田，“除非伊朗不明智地决定攻击在此事中非常无辜的卡塔尔”。但他同时警告，如果伊朗再次袭击卡塔尔液化天然气设施，美国将毫不犹豫地炸毁整个南帕尔斯气田。

美国战争部长赫格塞斯周四说，美国对伊朗的军事行动正按计划进行，但拒绝就战争会何时结束给出明确时间表。

在利雅得开会的12个阿拉伯与回教国家当天发布联合声明，谴责伊朗蓄意瞄准居民区和民用基础设施，并敦促伊朗立即停止袭击。

英国、法国、德国、意大利、荷兰五个欧洲国家以及日本周四发表联合声明说，他们将采取措施稳定能源市场，并准备加入“适当努力”，确保霍尔木兹海峡的航行安全。

Trump threatens key Iranian gas field after Israeli strike

‘I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction… but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so,’ Trump warned

By Alex Nitzberg
Fox News
Published March 19, 2026 8:32am EDT

President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post that the U.S. will powerfully attack Iran’s South Pars natural gas field if the Islamic Republic targets a Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility again.

“Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility,” Trump declared in the Truth Social post.

“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar — In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before,” he continued.

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President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.(Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump warned that while he does not want to take such action, he would be willing to do so.

“I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so,” he declared in the post.

Trump’s threat comes as the U.S. and Israel are deep into the third week of their controversial war with Iran.

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President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago club on Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Earlier this week, Joe Kent resigned from his position as National Counterterrorism Center director due to his opposition to the war.

“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent declared in his resignation letter.

FORMER COUNTERTERRORISM CHIEF JOE KENT UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION FOR ALLEGED CLASSIFIED LEAKS

Joe Kent, then-director of the National Counterterrorism Center, is sworn in to a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Dec. 11, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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Trump pushed back on Tuesday, saying that “it’s a good thing that he’s out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not they wanted to do something about it.”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

Republican speaker, intel chiefs make new push to renew surveillance law

March 19, 2026 1:53 PM UTC / Reuters

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 17, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/ File Photo [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]

WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – U.S. House Republican leader Mike Johnson and the Trump administration’s spy chiefs are pushing for a quick and clean renewal of the surveillance powers that allow law enforcement to mine foreign intelligence for ​information about Americans without judicial authorization.

How quick and clean it will be remains to be seen.

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Johnson told reporters ‌on Tuesday that past reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were “working just as we planned,” arguing for a straightforward extension of the spy power. To press the point, a phalanx of intelligence officials, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Lt. ​Gen. William Hartman, the acting director of the National Security Agency, briefed congressional leaders behind closed doors about the ​program on Wednesday.

Details of the briefing were not made public. The FBI declined to comment. The ⁠CIA, the NSA, and the Justice Department didn’t return messages.

Section 702 allows the National Security Agency to surveil foreigners abroad ​using data drawn from U.S. digital infrastructure. But the provision has long been a magnet for anxieties over domestic surveillance from the ​right and the left because it can allow the NSA’s law enforcement counterparts to mine the massive data trove without a warrant.

Past bids to renew the legislation have regularly produced moments of high drama, with proponents saying American spies are on the verge of going blind and opponents saying the ​country is sleepwalking toward a surveillance state. The 2024 effort to renew the spy power only succeeded on its fourth attempt, and ​a proposal to require U.S. law enforcement to get a judicial sign-off before searching the intercepted data failed in the House of Representatives ‌by a ⁠single vote.

Some past skeptics of the law have been converted. Trump railed against the program when he was out of power, but his White House is now lobbying for its renewal. Trump loyalist Jim Jordan, who once promised to scupper it without a warrant requirement, is now among those pushing to reauthorize it without one.

But other roadblocks remain. Florida Republican Paulina Luna, for example, has ​said she’d vote for its ​renewal approval only if it’s ⁠attached to the SAVE America Act – the Republicans’ long-shot voting bill that would require Americans to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Jordan’s spokesperson pointed Reuters to an interview, opens new tab in which ​he said that reforms instituted in 2024 meant that “a short term, temporary extension is fine.” ​Luna’s representative didn’t ⁠return a message.

Critics of the surveillance power say the changes made in 2024 mainly codified existing practices and did nothing to address the core issue of warrantless surveillance. They say substantive reform is all the more important given Trump’s willingness to use government power to crush ⁠his political ​opponents – and the gutting of federal oversight bodies that might otherwise act ​as a brake on intrusive surveillance.

“All of the institutional oversight mechanisms have been taken apart,” said Jake Laperruque, the deputy director of Center for Democracy and ​Technology’s Security and Surveillance Project. “We’ve killed all the canaries in the coal mine.”

Reporting by Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens Editing by Nick Zieminski

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