House, Senate approve extension to foreign surveillance law
The Congress and the Senate on Friday voted in favor of extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, renewing the government’s authority to monitor phone calls and emails to keep tabs on suspected terrorists and foreign spies, without having prior permission of the court.
Already approved by Congress, the 73-23 authorization by the Senate means it is now ready to move to the President’s desk for signature.
“We’ve got to get this bill on the desk of the president by Dec. 31,” Saxby Chambliss, a member of Senate Intelligence Committee said on the floor Friday, the legislation expires next year.
Opponents of the bill argue that such surveillance programs unnecessarily violate the privacy of Americans who might be in contact with their foreigner friends and relatives. Democratic Senator Ron WydenRon Wyden also noted that the Director of National Intelligence has failed to provide an estimate of the instances in which any domestic US communications have been swept up under the program.
“It is not real oversight when the United States Congress cannot get a yes or no answer as to whether a list exists of law abiding citizens who have had their communications swept up under this law,” Wyden said before the vote on his amendment Friday. “This amendment gives us the opportunity to do real oversight by getting yes or no answers to questions that have been asked repeatedly.”
Proponents argue that such incidences have been very few and unintentional.
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said that communications collected under the program have proved very helpful in tracking terrorist activities overseas. He said the program has “provided the intelligence community insight into terrorist networks and plans" and have "directly and significantly contributed to successful operations to impede the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related technologies."
The debate on Friday pivoted around the need to balance national security with civil liberties. Chairwoman of Senate’s Intelligence Committee, Dianne FeinsteinDianne Feinstein, told Wyden that the success of the program could be jeopardized if details of names and numbers being taped is released. She said that Wyden's argument to disclose specific incidences would lead to the destruction of the program.
Feinstein said that the surveillance law has ways to restrict the use of information that is unintentionally gathered on Americans and therefore this should not be a problem.
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