The recent court-ordered declassification of documents about telephone...
The recent court-ordered declassification of documents about telephone metadata collection and surveillance by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence “demonstrates the need for close oversight and appropriate checks and balances,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said…
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in a statement Tuesday. “Americans deserve to understand more about the [National Security Agency’s] collection and use of their phone records, and in particular about the types of systemic problems revealed in these documents.” The committee “will hold further hearings to hear from Administration officials,” and Leahy’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Accountability and Privacy Protection Act, S-1215, “would put an end to the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act,” he said.