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Speaker Mike Johnson is making his pitch this week to colleagues to extend the intelligence community's warrantless surveillance authority.
A bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with new safeguards for transparency is expected to make its way to the House floor this week, but it's far from clear whether it will have wide Republican support.
Section 702 has been credited for helping intelligence officers thwart terror attacks on U.S. soil, but has also been prone to abuse with spying on U.S. citizens.
It allows the U.S. government to surveil foreign nationals with suspected terror ties who are not on U.S. soil, even if the party on the other side of such communications is a U.S. national in America.
Hardliners on the right and left have become strange bedfellows over accusations that FISA has trampled on Americans' civil liberties.
Speaker Mike Johnson is making his pitch this week to colleagues to extend the intelligence community's warrantless surveillance authority
The Rules Committee is marking up and advancing a version of a renewal bill on Tuesday.
The House-led bill released last week would extend the program while also adding new changes that are meant to bolster oversight and training and ensure the program's transparency.
