Sputnik — Sessions, Coats Push For US Government Surveillance Powers to Become Permanent

Summary:
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions and National Intelligence Director Daniel Coats want the US Congress to permanently empower the federal government to carry out warrantless surveillance of foreign targets, according to a letter they sent to lawmakers. "We are writing to urge that the Congress promptly reauthorize, in clean and permanent form, Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), enacted by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA)," Sessions and Coats wrote in their letter on Monday.Title VII, which is set to expire at the end of the year, gives the US National Security Agency nearly unchecked power to monitor foreign targets, as well as Americans' international communications. The legislation has been used as the legal basis for surveillance programs disclosed

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: Dan Coats, Jeff Sessions, surveillance state, US intelligence services

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