Jon Kyl: “We are talking about a bill which would plug a loophole in the existing law--the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…”

“We are talking about a bill which would plug a loophole in the existing law--the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act--which currently authorizes warrants to be obtained in two specific situations. We make it clear that there is a third situation as well. The two specific situations are where you either have somebody you suspect is involved in international terrorism because they work for a foreign government--that is a situation like the old Soviet spy--or they work for some international terrorist organization. Remember that this law was created at the time when we had organized groups such as the Red Brigade and the Meinhof gang, and those types of groups.”