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Trump Threatens to Veto House-passed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Reforms

Masood Farivar

   The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to change the way the
   FBI and National Security Agency use the Foreign Intelligence
   Surveillance Act to conduct electronic surveillance of foreign
   nationals and agents in the United States. But President Donald Trump
   indicated Thursday that he might veto the bipartisan bill, saying he
   and his allies wanted more information about how the FBI's
   investigation of alleged ties between his 2016 presidential campaign
   and Russia was launched.

   "Many Republican Senators want me to Veto the FISA Bill until we find
   out what led to, and happened with, the illegal attempted 'coup' of the
   duly elected President of the United States, and others!" Trump wrote
   on Twitter.

   The FBI investigation, later taken over by special counsel Robert
   Mueller, has long been a lightning rod for criticism by Trump. The
   president frequently attacks it as an attempt to forestall his 2016
   election and, later, to undo his presidency.

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