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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, presided over a hearing of the Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 09. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White House faces deeply skeptical Congress as it advocates for controversial surveillance tool

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires in December, is in perhaps its most precarious position yet.
The government’s annual transparency report disclosing the warrantless data searches began in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s 2013 disclosures of the government spying on Americans. Snowden is pictured here at a November 2019 event in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Spy report: 3.4M warrantless searches of US data under FISA last year

The 3.4 million searches the ODNI disclosed Friday represent a significant increase from last year.
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