The weekslong FISA battle that ended in an overnight defeat for Mike Johnson

The weekslong FISA battle that ended in an overnight defeat for Mike Johnson

Conservative privacy hawks delivered a blunt verdict to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after weeks of wrangling over an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: no deal. The back-to-back losses suffered by Johnson on the floor early Friday morning were months in the making, as GOP divisions against an extension of a government spy tool without reforms boiled over into a full-blown revolt that forced leadership to…