In the nick of time, we are reauthorizing FISA right before it expires at midnight, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said when voting on final passage began 15 minutes before the deadline. All day long, we persisted and we persisted in trying to reach a breakthrough and in the end, we have succeeded.
U.S. officials have said the surveillance tool, first authorized in 2008 and renewed several times since then, is crucial in disrupting terror attacks, cyber intrusions, and foreign espionage and has also produced intelligence that the U.S. has relied on for specific operations, such as the 2022 killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
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