Progressive activists see ‘betrayal’ after Democrats save government snooping program for Biden

Progressive activists have unleashed fury on Democrats after party leaders rallied to pass a bill expanding the government’s chief snooping authority without any major new safeguards for Americans’ privacy. Democrats provided most of the votes as the House renewed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and, in a separate vote, shot down an attempt to add a requirement to the law that would have forced the FBI to get a warrant before it could snoop through the data for Americans’ communications. The votes were a stunning reversal from...