Senate to reconsider expired surveillance tools
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(Worthy News) – The U.S. Senate will make a renewed attempt this week to extend parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday, two months after the divisive government surveillance tools expired.
“We must act quickly to clean up the mess and renew these authorities,” McConnell said in remarks opening the Senate session.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives backed the “USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020” extending the provisions in March, shortly before Congress left Washington as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the United States. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]
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