Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,...
Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., inserted a provision into the defense spending bill last week that would create new obligations for the National Security Agency. The provision would compel the NSA to disclose the number of phone…
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records of U.S. residents that have been acquired under the agency’s bulk collection program and how many records NSA staff has reviewed, his spokesman told us. The NSA would also have to report on all its bulk collection activities, “including when such activities began, the cost of such activities, what types of records have been collected in the past, what types of records are currently being collected, and any plans for future bulk collection,” he said. The agency would also have to disclose the terrorist activities that the data collection program helped prevent and whether other means could have yielded this information, he said. The provision would require NSA to give the reports to Congress by 90 days after the bill is signed and ensure they're “unclassified to the greatest extent possible,” the spokesman said. The spending bill cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee last week.