House leader: Surveillance law helped uncover alleged plot
House Speaker John Boehner credited a controversial government surveillance program on Thursday for helping uncover an alleged plot by a man to bomb the U.S. Capitol and kill government officials.
At a news conference at a retreat of Republican lawmakers, Boehner singled out FISA, an acronym for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the FBI to obtain search warrants and communications intercepts in intelligence cases.
Boehner also said he did not want to dwell on a separate case, involving a man with a history of psychiatric illness who was charged last week with threatening to murder him, possibly by poisoning his drink.
