House rushes to renew key surveillance tool
AP News
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House Republican leadership is rushing early Friday to renew a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies.
They unveiled substantial changes after days of negotiating with a bloc of Republican holdouts.
Leaders have called lawmakers back to session for a middle-of-the-night vote.
The substantial changes are far from the clean renewal President Donald Trump had previously demanded.
At the center of the standoff is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which permits the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI and other agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of overseas communications without a warrant.
In doing so, they can incidentally sweep up communications involving Americans who interact with foreign targets.
- House extends surveillance powers for 10 days NPR —
- Full List of Republican Rebels Who Voted Against FISA Extension Newsweek —
- House punts Trump spy powers extension after conservatives block deal, forcing end-of-month showdown Fox News —
- A compromise House proposal to renew a powerful national-security surveillance program for five years failed to advance, an embarrassing setback for Republican leaders Wall Street Journal —
- House Votes to Extend Expiring Law on Warrantless Surveillance for 10 Days The New York Times —