Shawn GriffithsNational Journal reported Tuesday that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court, or FISC) authorized the continuation of the NSA's bulk collection of American phone records, despite calls from members of the legislative branch to cease these activities immediately.
From the National Journal:
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While the debate over the constitutionality of the FISA Court is justified, it is the language in the USA Freedom Act that actually allows the bulk collection of phone records to continue. And the request to authorize the continuation of the program came from President Obama, who signed the USA Freedom Act into law.
"Acknowledging the unusual situation that finds the government again extending a controversial program Congress fought to dismantle, the Court began its opinion with a dose of French prose that translates to, 'the more things change, the more they stay the same,'" Dustin Volz of the National Journal reports.
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