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House Intel committee advances spy bill

House Intel committee advances spy bill

December 4, 2017

Via: FCW
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In a contentious Dec. 1 meeting, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence approved a bill to reauthorize the government’s spying powers 13-8 on a party-line vote.

The bill would reauthorize the government’s surveillance powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for another four years and expand the conditions under which the FBI and law enforcement could query the communications of U.S. persons.

The House Intelligence Committee’s bill is one of at least five that have been introduced in Congress thus far to reauthorize Section 702. Congressional leaders have declined to endorse any of the bills proposed or schedule any floor votes, and members of Congress have begun openly predicting that reauthorization of the spying powers will be tacked onto must-pass legislation at the end of the year, when the 702 provisions are due to expire.

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