An independent watchdog agency that investigates the nation’s security programs unanimously urged Congress in a report made public Thursday to reauthorize an expiring and much-debated law that allows warrantless surveillance of targeted foreigners even when they are communicating with or about Americans.
A normally low-profile watchdog agency charged with investigating US national security programs has fractured into a bitter public dispute over proposed reforms to a controversial law that allows warrantless surveillance of foreigners but also sweeps up the communications of American citizens.
Fifteen years after Section 702 was first authorized by Congress as a tool for foreign surveillance, there's never been an accounting of how many Americans…