
Congress passed a short-term budget resolution last Thursday which includes extending a National Security Agency (NSA) authority that allows for the warrantless collection of foreign suspects’ communications outside of U.S. borders.The surveillance law, Sec. 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA), was set to expire on Dec. 31, but amid pressure from the intelligence community (IC) on the authority’s role in preventing terrorist incidents, lawmakers pushed reauthorization back to Jan. 19.A statement issued Thursday from Department of Justice and…