“A key Senate committee approved today a measure that would give congressional blessing to the NSA’s bulk collection of domestic telephone metadata, and bolster the legal underpinnings of the controversial snooping program. ‘The NSA call-records program is legal and subject to extensive congressional and judicial oversight, and I believe it contributes to our national security,’ Feinstein said in a statement, after the committee approved the measure in private. Among other things, the package specifically adds bulk phone-metadata collection to the business records provision of the Patriot Act.”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/phone-snooping-approved/
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