FISA Court Approves One-Year Extension of Surveillance Power

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Friday approved a one-year extension to a controversial spy law that permits US intelligence agencies and law enforcement to collect the communications of foreign citizens in certain circumstances, according to an administration official and four other people familiar with the process.

Details of the recertification of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act precedes an expected debate in Congress next week about legislation to reform elements of the measure, following multiple attempts by lawmakers in both chambers to write such bills. The House Rules Committee earlier Friday announced it would consider measures to ...