NSA Surveillance Bill Sparks Lawmaker Debate Over ‘Unmasking’
- House Intelligence approves four-year extension of program
- Partisan debate centers on Trump’s claim he was wiretapped
National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
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Legislation to extend a major U.S. surveillance program that’s about to expire became a forum Friday for partisan debate over President Donald Trump’s allegation that the Obama administration “wiretapped” Trump Tower last year.
The House Intelligence Committee ultimately approved along party lines its version of a bill to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for four years. The program, which is set to lapse at the end of this month, lets the National Security Agency intercept calls or emails from suspected foreign terrorists outside of the U.S.