Thought the warrantless surveillance legally enabled by FISA Section 702 was due to go belly up if not reauthorized by New Year’s Eve? Think again, say President Trump’s lawyers: you’re stuck with it until the spring.

For the past year and a half, national security officials in the US have been begging Congress to extend the legal basis for the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) warrantless surveillance.

That legal basis is the legislative hot potato we know as Section 702 of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) – a hot potato that was due to grow cold if not renewed in a few weeks, at year’s end.

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