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Congress

House Considering Legislation To Reauthorize Warrantless Foreign Surveillance Authority

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, January 8th, 2018

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House Considering Legislation To Reauthorize Warrantless Foreign Surveillance Authority

The House is considering legislation this week to re-authorize an intelligence community (IC) surveillance law that allows for the warrantless collection of foreign suspects’ communications outside of U.S. borders. Lawmakers will vote Thursday to potentially extend an amended version of Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act for another six years, which includes provisions related to concerns on the potential for Americans to have their communications picked up without a warrant during intelligence gathering operations on foreign persons of…

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