Congress faces a Friday deadline to renew FISA Section 702, a controversial but critical surveillance tool. According to NPR, more than 60 percent of the president's daily intelligence briefing depends on information collected under this authority. But lawmakers have repeatedly struggled to reauthorize the program, leaving the government's intelligence operations in limbo as the expiration date approaches.

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