President Donald Trump’s administration hasn’t released a secretive court opinion on warrantless surveillance that was supposed to be made public last month, according to two Democratic senators. The opinion “details serious abuses of Americans’ rights under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA),” according to the senators.
Section 702 allows the collection of communications from foreign sources without a warrant but is criticized for sweeping up a ton of communications from Americans in the process.
Sen. Ron Wyden from Oregon and Sen. Adam Schiff from California released a letter Monday addressed to the Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and Attorney General Todd Blanche calling for the release of the court opinion, which was created in March. By law, a declassified version should have been released in 180 days on Sept.…