Sen. Mike Lee says secretive system to approve government eavesdropping is broken

Sen. Mike Lee said Tuesday that now-acknowledged problems with how the FBI obtained permission four years ago to eavesdrop on a Trump campaign aide mistakenly believed to be a Russian spy show that it’s time to reform the secretive approval system.“The FISA process must be reformed,” the Utah Republican said about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which establishes procedures to obtain permission for surveillance of suspected spies.“We can’t ask Americans t