
The Senate voted Thursday to pass a bill reauthorizing a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) program allowing warrantless surveillance of foreign suspects outside the U.S. for another six years. Legislation to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act passed by a vote of 65-34, receiving support across party lines.The bill offered minimal changes to the authority which allows intelligence community (IC) officials without a warrant to access Americans’ communications which may have been picked up incidentally during foreign surveillance…