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The White House has been “engaged” with the...

The White House has been “engaged” with the House Intelligence Committee as its members put together a proposal on surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a White House spokeswoman told us. The status of the rumored bill has been…

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contested within the committee, which has not cleared any legislation or settled on a final bill (CD Dec 30 p4). Privacy advocates have criticized initial indications of what the bill may look like, fearing it will codify phone metadata surveillance practices and resemble the Senate Intelligence Committee’s FISA bill. “The Administration has and will remain engaged with Members and staff of the Committee regarding various proposals for reforming signals intelligence collection authorities, policies, and operations,” the White House spokeswoman said.