Wednesday 20 November 2013

Three US Senators denounce unnecessary NSA phone surveillance

Three US Senators denounce unnecessary NSA phone surveillance
Nov 20th 2013, 11:34, by Vlad Savov

A trio of Democrat Senators sitting on the US Select Committee on Intelligence has expressed its disapproval of the NSA's bulk surveillance of US citizens' phone calls. Ron Wyden of Oregon, Mark Udall of Colorado, and Martin Heinrich from New Mexico all agree — having reviewed confidential information that their Committee status grants them access to — that the mass invasion of privacy is not justified by the intel gained from it. In their own words, they "have seen no evidence that the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records ... is uniquely necessary to the national security of the United States."
That directly contradicts the arguments made in support of the NSA's tracking program, which keeps logs of who you call, when, and...
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