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| Donald Trump sparks disarray after attacking surveillance powers his administration is supposed to support | Donald Trump sparks disarray after attacking surveillance powers his administration is supposed to support |
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| Congress rejected new limits on surveillance that sweeps in Americans after Donald Trump roiled debate with a series of contradictory tweets assailing a programme his administration is on the record supporting. | |
| A provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which allows intelligence agencies to gather communications from foreign targets without obtaining warrants, has spurred a debate over the balance between national security and privacy. With the broader programme up for renewal, a bipartisan group of politicians proposed requiring warrants when surveillance vacuums up messages Americans send or are mentioned in. | |
| An amendment imposing that mandate failed in a House vote as representatives approved the larger programme with minimal changes. The White House had thrown its support behind the act, with multiple administration officials calling for it to be made permanent, but Mr Trump sowed confusion by attacking the measure and then seeming to backtrack. | |
| After initially decrying the program on Twitter as having been used to “so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign,” he later said that “today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land”. | After initially decrying the program on Twitter as having been used to “so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign,” he later said that “today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land”. |
| “We need it! Get smart”! Mr Trump said. | “We need it! Get smart”! Mr Trump said. |
| Those divergent responses prompted some members of Congress to question whether Mr Trump understood a controversial national security tool that was on the verge of being renewed. | Those divergent responses prompted some members of Congress to question whether Mr Trump understood a controversial national security tool that was on the verge of being renewed. |
| House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, suggested that the House should hold off on voting until representatives had more clarity on Mr Trump's tweets. | House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, suggested that the House should hold off on voting until representatives had more clarity on Mr Trump's tweets. |
| “FISA is something the President should have known about long before he turned on Fox this morning,” Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Twitter. | “FISA is something the President should have known about long before he turned on Fox this morning,” Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Twitter. |
| According to CNN, Mr Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who leads the Republican caucus, spoke after the President’s initial tweet. | According to CNN, Mr Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who leads the Republican caucus, spoke after the President’s initial tweet. |