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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Obama Warns the Senate To Pass Surveillance Law



President Obama told reporters in the Oval Office that the United States risked attack without the surveillance tools in the bill before the Senate. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Obama suggested ominously on Friday that allowing domestic surveillance programs to expire at a Sunday deadline could lead to a terrorist attack on the United States.
Pushing the Senate to break a logjam on legislation, Mr. Obama warned in the Oval Office that, “I don’t want us to be in a situation in which, for a certain period of time, those authorities go away and suddenly we’re dark.”
“Heaven forbid we’ve got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who was engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn’t do so simply because of inaction in the Senate,” Mr. Obama added.

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