NSA programme: Bush-era powers expire as US prepares to roll back surveillance
Sweeping intelligence capabilities exposed by Edward Snowden shut down as hawks concede defeat on first major surveillance reform in a
generation
Senator Mitch McConnell said voting on the House-backed USA Freedom Act
was ‘certainly not ideal’ but was ‘now the only realistic way forward’
on a surveillance impasse. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
