Law due to expire at midnight tonight following unhappiness over Trump’s pick for intelligence chief A key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) is due to expire on Friday night amid a backlash to Trump’s announcement that Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and a major Republican donor, would be acting DNI. While Trump has moved to contain the furor – announcing his nomination of another top official, Jay Carney, to take the role on a permanent basis – US Congress has so far failed to extend section 702 of Fisa in time for Friday’s deadline. Pulte has to go. He cannot be in the DNI role. It’s too important. Donald Trump declared “a great settlement” with Iran, which could be signed soon “maybe in Europe, over the weekend”. Trump’s hand-picked boa