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    Controversial Spy Law Passes House After Shots From Trump, Who Then Supported It

    President Trump took aim at a controversial surveillance law hours after the White House issued a statement calling for Congress to reauthorize it. The politics are fraught.
    by Philip Ewing Jan 11, 2018 5 minutes
    The House on Thursday agreed to reauthorize a controversial spying bill after President Trump — whose administration supports it — blasted the measure on Twitter.

    Updated at 12:20 p.m. EST.

    A controversial spying law survived in the House after a kerfuffle on Thursday in which President Trump took aim at the bill despite his administration's formal support for it.

    The House voted to reauthorize snooping provisions known by the Capitol Hill shorthand as "Section 702," which are due to expire next week. The Senate would need to vote next in order to preserve them; the House vote was to extend the authority for six more years.

    The White House supports reauthorization, but Trump escalated the intermittent war with his intelligence agencies on Thursday in a series of Twitter posts that threatened to torpedo the vote.

    The controversial law permits U.S. intelligence to surveil Americans without a warrant when they are detected talking with foreigners overseas who were under surveillance.

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