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House Passes Bill To Reauthorize NSA’s 702 Warrantless Surveillance Program

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, January 11th, 2018

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House Passes Bill To Reauthorize NSA’s 702 Warrantless Surveillance Program

The House passed a bill Thursday reauthorizing a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) authority to conduct warrantless surveillance against foreign suspects outside of the U.S.Lawmakers voted 256-164 across party lines to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act for another six years, and offered minimal changes in the legislation despite lengthy debate about loopholes in the provision that may allow intelligence community officials to conduct domestic surveillance on American citizens.“The House of Representatives has taken a big step…

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