Bulk collection of Americans’ phone metadata is a...
Bulk collection of Americans’ phone metadata is a “needless” and “significant” threat to constitutional liberties, based on information in the declassified documents released by the Director of National Intelligence Tuesday, said Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Udall, D-Colo., in…
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a statement (http://1.usa.gov/1eEXUgq). “The court required the NSA to seek case-by-case approval to access the bulk phone records until these compliance violations were addressed,” the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee said. “In our judgment, the fact that the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] Court was able to handle these requests on an individual basis is further evidence that intelligence agencies can get all of the information that they genuinely need without engaging in the dragnet surveillance of huge numbers of law-abiding Americans."