Senate Approves Expansion of Warrantless Surveillance - On Friday night the Senate voted to expand warrantless intelligence surveillance of international communications -- including communications between people in the United States and people abroad. The Senate measure, which could soon be passed by the House, authorizes even broader warrantless surveillance than that permitted under the warrantless surveillance program the President approved after September 11, 2001. CDT opposes the measure, which badly weakens the law protecting innocent Americans from having their privacy violated by government dragnets. August 04, 2007