Trump to VETO the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

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US President Donald Trump has affirmed to quickly VETO a bill to reauthorize formerly terminated the US national security surveillance measures. He said Obama administration intelligence officials abused to spy on his 2016 campaign. Trump said, “Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political crime in history. The massive abuse of FISA was a big part of it”! The president tweeted and referred to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that governs a wide swath of US intelligence monitoring operations. It is noteworthy that the US House of Representatives is voting on the bill and an accompanying Senate amendment after the upper chamber last week passed both measures with overwhelming bipartisan support.

President Trump urged House Republicans to oppose the bill while Senate committees probe unsubstantiated allegations that the Obama administration intentionally abused the FISA system to unfairly target and undermine the 2016 Trump campaign and incoming Trump administration officials in early 2017 with investigations into their possible connections to Russia. It is important that House Republicans helped to put the package together and voted in favor of it months ago. Point to be noted that new Covid-19 research has suggested the number of people who can be infected with coronavirus but show no symptoms could be far higher than previously thought.

The new research says passengers on a cruise ship affected by Covid-19, more than eight out of 10 tested positive for the virus but had no symptoms. The joint editor of the journal Thorax, Professor Alan Smyth said the results had implications for easing lockdown restrictions. Smyth said, “It is difficult to find a reliable estimate of the number of Covid-19-positive patients who have no symptoms“. There are a number of countries measuring to ease lockdown and a high proportion of infected, but asymptomatic, individuals may mean that a much higher percentage of the population than expected may have been infected with Covid-19. The cruise ship was departed from Argentina for a planned 21-day cruise of the Antarctic in mid-March 2020.