# FISA Section 702 Section 702, added by the [[FISA Amendments Act of 2008]], authorized targeted acquisition of foreign-intelligence information concerning non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States. The Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence submit annual [[Section 702 Certification|certifications]] and targeting, minimization, and querying procedures to the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|FISC]]. The court reviews the programmatic package; it does not issue an individualized probable-cause order for every selector. ## Prohibited targeting and separate downstream acts Section 702 may not intentionally target a U.S. person anywhere, a person known to be in the United States, or a person abroad when the real purpose is to obtain a known person in the United States—[[Reverse Targeting|reverse targeting]]. It also prohibits intentionally acquiring a communication when all known communicants are in the United States. The archive should keep six actions distinct: **targeting → acquisition → retention → querying → dissemination → use**. Lawful foreign targeting can still produce incidentally acquired U.S.-person communications. Later U.S.-person queries therefore form a separate [[Query Governance|governance]] problem. ## Notebook evidence PDF pages 8–16 of [[Scanned_20260730-1830]] reach this distinction. Owner-supplied context identifies much of the material as notes from [[Event - Lake Oswego Explanatory Briefing]] and a supplied report packet. The repeated May 20, 2023 card points to public release of the [[April 2022 FISC Section 702 Opinion]], in which large-scale FBI query-compliance failures became central to the reauthorization debate. The legal distinction is independently supportable; any claim that Section 702 explained Bryant's prior experiences remains an [[Externally Supplied Explanation]]. ## Dated legal-status note Congress reauthorized Title VII in April 2024. Temporary laws later moved the sunset to June 12, 2026. A June 2026 House bill proposing a July 2 extension failed, so the statutory authority lapsed on June 12. Statutory transition language can allow acquisitions already authorized by a FISC order to continue for that order's remaining term; the exact expiration of any 2026 certification requires the controlling order, which is not presently public in this vault. ## Boundary Targeting restrictions, collection methods, repository access, query approval, dissemination, and criminal use must not be collapsed into a single claim that someone was “under 702.” ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1830]], PDF pages 8–16. - [[Addendum - Provenance of Scanned_20260730-1830]]. - [Public Law 119-87](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ87/pdf/PLAW-119publ87.pdf) — temporary extension to June 12, 2026. - [U.S. House Clerk, Roll Call 221](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026221) — June 11, 2026 failure of H.R. 9238, which proposed a July 2 extension. - [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, About the Court](https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/node/70) — Section 702 certification and procedure review. - [ODNI, FISA Section 702](https://www.intelligence.gov/foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act/fisa-section-702) — targeting limits and annual oversight architecture.