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NACDL News: NACDL ‘Profoundly Disappointed’ by Passage of Warrantless Surveillance Legislation
On Jan. 18, 2018, the Senate passed S. 139, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017, which was signed by the president shortly thereafter, codifying warrantless surveillance of Americans into law. The legislation reauthorizes Section 702 of FISA, which was intended to target the communications of non-U.S. persons overseas, but often captures purely domestic communications.