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The Guardian - US
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Sanya Mansoor

A powerful US surveillance law is set to expire – what happens now?

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Mike Johnson, the House speaker, in Washington on Thursday. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters

Donald Trump’s bid to install a controversial ally as the country’s leading intelligence official has shone a light on the wide reach of a powerful surveillance law, and raised questions over its future.

Privacy advocates say it deserves scrutiny, and reform, regardless of who the US president appoints as director of national intelligence (DNI).

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