Ahead Of Hill Vote, Trump Attacks Spy Bill His Administration Supports
January 11, 201810:07 AM ET
PHILIP EWING
President Trump escalated the intermittent war with his intelligence agencies on Thursday in a series of Twitter posts that threatened to torpedo a vote in Congress on what spies consider one of their most essential surveillance tools.
Members of Congress were set to vote to reauthorize a controversial law that permits U.S. intelligence to surveil Americans without a warrant when they are detected talking with foreigners overseas who were already under surveillance.
But that law known by its congressional shorthand, Section 702 has become tangled up in the sprawling political imbroglio over Russia's attack on the 2016 election, and Trump resurrected charges that it might have been used to snoop on him.
"This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump campaign by the previous administration and others?" he wrote.
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