Senate Falls Short on Expansion of FBI Surveillance Authority
The United States Senate last week rejected a Republican-backed amendment that would have given the FBI expanded authority to access the browser histories and other electronic records of targets of terrorism and other national security investigations without first obtaining a warrant. The Senate voted 58-38 for the amendment, cosponsored by Sens. Richard Burr and John McCain. The amendment would have granted the FBI the power to obtain suspected terrorists' electronic records without a court order.