Controversial US surveillance program (briefly?) lapses amid congressional dysfunction
Controversial US surveillance program (briefly?) lapses amid congressional dysfunction Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty ImagesThe Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 720 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying on foreign “targets,” but a long, knock-down, drag-out fight over amendments kept the Senate in session past midnight on Friday, whe...