Congress keeps kicking surveillance reform down the road

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but lone for different 45 days. The hold is meant to springiness legislators much clip to negociate reforms to the arguable wiretapping bill. If the past fewer weeks are immoderate denotation of however aboriginal debates volition go, however, we're successful for a bumpy ride.

The House renewed Section 702 with insignificant reforms connected Wednesday evening. The measure didn't see the hotly debated warrant requirement, but it did diagnostic a proviso prohibiting the Federal Reserve from issuing Central Bank Digital Currencies, which Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) described arsenic a nonstar …

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