The House on Wednesday approved a three-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which gives the federal government the power to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans. The extension passed in a vote of 235-191, a day before its previous extension expires. The bill, in its current form, may not make […]
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To be quite honest, it’s more remarkable at this stage that there are still timed/sunset parameters at all. In this government, no one would bat an eye for all to be made permanent and significantly expanded; then it would not even need to make the news again.