By Ellen Nakashima Ellen Nakashima National security reporter Email Bio Follow March 18 at 12:01 PM Several dozen civil liberties groups are pressing the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings about a domestic surveillance power that Congress authorized in 2015 to end U.S. intelligence agencies’ bulk collection of Americans’ data.
“The information . . . is critical to determine how surveillance authorities are being used and the impact they have on individuals’ rights,” wrote the 39 groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union, in a letter to Rep. Jerrold Nadler , the committee chairman, and ranking Republican member Rep. Douglas A. Collins .
Its replacement program, authorized by the USA Freedom Act, involved the U.S. government obtaining records from phone service providers with a court order. The law enabled the agency to collect records of people up to two hops removed from the target. The metadata recorded who called or texted whom, when and for how long, but not what was said.
“Because the NSA has failed to disclose” the ultimate number of accounts or devices linked to these 40 targets, as required under the USA Freedom Act, “it is difficult to know how many individuals are likely impacted by such collection,” the groups said.
Good, we don’t need the NSA competing with China for spying rights on Americans.
At a time when I keep hearing about terrorism being on the rise, do we really want the monitors to be weakened like this?
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