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Bill to extend FISA surveillance powers stalls in senate.(Inside Track)(Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act)(Brief article)
A bill that the Bush administration is lobbying Congress to pass in support of the "war on terrorism" has stalled in the Senate. The legislation would permanently extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 so that the government can do warrantless electronic surveillance on Americans' overseas communications. This act was temporarily given such power last August, when Congress passed the Protect America Act, which will expire in February.
The Bush administration is seeking to make the increased surveillance authority permanent. The version of the bill acted upon most recently, S. 2248, is described as "an original bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, to modernize and streamline the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes." S. 2248 was introduced by Sen. John "Jay" Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and was guided along by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), indicating that the Bush administration has at least ...
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...illustrative of the president's placing himself "above the law." The law they have in mind is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), which governs most domestic monitoring of terrorists and spies, and outside whose strictures...