Obama Administration to Ask Secret Court to Revive NSA Surveillance
The Guardian on Wednesday reported that the Obama administration “intends to use part of a law banning the bulk collection of US phone records to temporarily restart the bulk collection of US phone records.”
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The Guardian on Wednesday reported that the Obama administration “intends to use part of a law banning the bulk collection of US phone records to temporarily restart the bulk collection of US phone records.”
The paper continued:
US officials confirmed to the Guardian that in the coming days they will ask a secret surveillance court to revive the program – deemed illegal by a federal appeals court – all in the name of “transitioning” the domestic surveillance effort to the telephone companies that generate the so-called “call detail records” the government seeks to access.
With the expiration of key portions of the Patriot Act, the National Security Agency supposedly stopped its 14-year-old collection of U.S. phone records at 8 p.m. EDT Sunday.
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