Senate Passes Bill Reauthorizing FISA Surveillance

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) holds a copy of the Steele Dossier during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Dec. 11, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The Senate on Thursday passed an act that reauthorizes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

The act lets government investigators apply to a secretive court to spy on Americans. The program has widespread problems, the Department of Justice’s inspector general found earlier this year.