https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/national-security/Recent content in National Security on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usMon, 15 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/no-one-came-back/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/no-one-came-back/<p>At midnight on Friday, June 12, a surveillance law lapsed.</p> <p>Not with a vote. Not with a floor speech. Not with a press conference in the marble hallways of any building you&rsquo;ve seen in a news photograph. The House had gone home for its scheduled recess. A short-term extension had failed to pass. And Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the legal authority that allows American intelligence agencies to collect the electronic communications of hundreds of thousands of foreigners located outside the United States, quietly expired while most of official Washington was somewhere else.</p>