President Joe Biden’s administration quietly asked a court Wednesday to extend its warrantless surveillance program until April 2025 without Congressional approval, the New York Times first reported.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was set to expire in December of 2023 until Congress voted to push off re-authorizing the law until April. Under the law the government has the authorization to gather foreigners’ communications, even if they were talking about or with Americans, who have been targeted in relation to intelligence matters.