In fight over key surveillance law, officials look to sway congressional skeptics

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In fight over key surveillance law, officials look to sway congressional skeptics
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A fight looms over a warrantless collection of communication of foreigners overseas.

The Biden administration and Congress are wrestling over the fate of a surveillance law that U.S. officials say is one of the government's best tools to gather foreign intelligence on everything from terrorists and hackers to Russia and China.

"We would be intentionally blinding ourselves to extraordinary danger in my view," he said."This is not a view I've always had. This is something I've learned as I've been at the department." The FBI's surveillance of Page was not conducted under Section 702 of FISA, but Republicans still point to it as an example of what they say is a broader problem with FISA and the FBI.

Section 702, she said, was created to conduct surveillance of foreigner terrorists,"but it's also used for many, many other things that Congress never intended, including spying on Americans here in the United States."

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