>The intelligence community has no restrictions operating on foreign networks and servers.

there have been several bombshell revelations in the last 1-2 decades which indisputably show that the US intelligence community also has (effectively) no restrictions operating on US citizen networks and servers, and often does so with the direct help of US companies.

the legal standards are worthless when they can just be ignored without consequence. when the standards happen to work, just buy the data from the private sector.

secondly, these changes are also about mitigating any retaliatory decisions made when the US government gets upset at how tall another country's leader is, or whatever.