Congress Punts Yet Again on Spy-Powers Reauthorization Fight
Congress punted the fight to reauthorize a key spy powers fight for more six weeks as privacy advocates see another opportunity to reform the controversial surveillance law.

Congress punted the fight to reauthorize a key spy powers fight for more six weeks as privacy advocates see another opportunity to reform the controversial surveillance law.

The House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan requesting documents and communications surrounding the bank’s decision to provide the FBI with their customers’ private banking info “voluntarily and without any legal process.”

The House Intelligence Committee announced on Wednesday its working group to reform what is referred to as the “crown jewel” for American intelligence agencies.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that there is “no chance in hell” that Congress reauthorizes the “crown jewel” for American intelligence agencies without a major fight from progressive and conservative lawmakers that want to reform.

The FBI offered former British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” if he could prove the claims in his infamous dossier, according to a senior FBI analyst’s testimony on Tuesday in Special Counsel John Durham’s criminal probe into the origins of Russiagate.
