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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The House fails to reauthorize the Section 702 surveillance program before its Friday expiration date,

meaning this important anti-terror program is about to go dark.

This despite President Trump's effort to quell the dissent on his

temporary spy master Bill Pulte by naming federal prosecutor Jay Clayton to be his permanent

replacement. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my

colleagues on the WSJ's opinion pages, editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Kim Strassel.

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

authorizes government collection of communication by foreigners abroad,

and it expires at midnight tonight.

After a couple of short-term extensions by Congress, it looked

like maybe Republicans and the Democrats were close to having a deal for a long-term reauthorization.

But then what happened is President Trump named Bill Pulte, his housing regulator, to temporarily

hold the post of Director of National Intelligence. On Thursday, the House then

failed a vote to reauthorize Section 702. Let's listen to a piece of Speaker Mike Johnson

responding to this. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is exactly what the new implies.

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