Martin Matishak reports:
A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Thursday attempted to break a monthslong logjam over extending a controversial surveillance program by introducing compromise legislation to win over privacy and national security hawks.
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) proposed a measure to reauthorize and reform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The authority, which expires on April 19, is meant to apply to foreign intelligence targets abroad but has come under bipartisan criticism because of its ability to hoover up the communications of U.S. citizens and repeated FBI abuses of the 702 database.
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