The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning another surveillance...
The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning another surveillance oversight hearing Nov. 20 at 10 a.m. in 226 Dirksen, the committee said Wednesday (http://1.usa.gov/1hNJ48R). Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., invited testimony from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, National Security Agency Director…
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Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Leahy’s office said in a notice. Leahy recently introduced legislation, S-1599, that would end many of the government’s surveillance practices. HR-3361 is its companion bill in the House. “The intelligence community faces a trust deficit, and I am particularly concerned that the NSA has strayed and overreached beyond its core missions,” Leahy said in a statement, saying NSA should “spend less of its time collecting data on innocent Americans, and more on keeping our nation’s secrets safe and holding its own accountable."