Vol. 42, No. 06
06/01/2026
Wolverton’s Warning | Congress Blesses the Surveillance State — Again
The Fourth Amendment was not written in pencil. It was not a suggestion. It was not a polite request submitted to the federal government, awaiting approval from bureaucrats, judges, spooks, or congressional errand boys of the intelligence apparatus.
It is a command: Get a warrant.
Yet on April 30, Congress once again bent the knee before the surveillance state, with the Senate voting unanimously — after the House voted 261-111 — to extend by 45 days Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the infamous warrantless spying power that allows federal intelligence agencies to collect communications supposedly aimed at foreigners overseas while also vacuuming up the emails, texts, calls, and digital lives of Americans “incidentally.”
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