More than 10,000 federal employees might have access to data revealed by a secretive government surveillance program that has come under scrutiny because of alleged abuses, according to expert testimony to Congress.
At an April 27 House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, lawmakers heard from a panel of witnesses on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which gives intelligence agencies broad powers to conduct surveillance on foreigners suspected of spying for a foreign power or belonging to a terrorist group. The witnesses included a representative from the Department of Justice Inspector General and two witnesses from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
