Thune pushes 45-day extension of FISA surveillance authority to avoid blackout

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has projected a 45-day hold of the nation’s surveillance authorities nether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to debar the anticipation that those powers expire astatine the extremity of the day, Thursday. Thune is moving a short-term hold of the warrantless spy powers nether Section 702 aft telling reporters…