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Aides said that Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, wanted assurances that the Senate would vote to extend the foreign surveillance program.

The N.S.A. said Friday, as The Hill reported, that it was relying on a 1981 executive order (updated in 2004) that dealt with foreign surveillance.

Greenwald tells a Brazilian senate hearing, attended by spectators holding Snowden masks, that U.S. foreign surveillance is primarily about economic competition, not about the prevention of terrorism.

At the time, the administration proposed sweeping measures to "modernize" the foreign surveillance law, a much broader proposal in some respects than what Congress approved.

And that nervousness was mixed with Aghans' brooding pronouncements about foreign surveillance they fear will never end even after the American forces withdraw.

On ABC's "This Week," former Vice President Dick Cheney will weigh in on foreign surveillance as well as politics in Washington and the state of the Republican Party.

Foreign surveillance-related, warrantless Section 702 content queries involving U.S. persons jumped from 5,288 to 7,512, for instance, and more citizens were "unmasked," indicating a general increase in quantity.

The standard of evidence required to open a foreign-surveillance wiretap is generally much lower than it is in common criminal cases.

While he opposes the bulk collection of domestic communications, he has no such strong feelings about the N.S.A.'s foreign-surveillance efforts.

The barriers were established years ago in an effort to prevent criminal investigators from sidestepping the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches by using the foreign-surveillance laws as the basis for conducting wiretaps of criminal suspects.

The Bush administration has argued that the new legislation calls for full cooperation between criminal prosecutors at the Justice Department and counterintelligence agents at the F.B.I., and that the prosecutors should be able to direct the use of foreign-surveillance wiretaps.