Three Democratic senators filed amicus briefs Tuesday in...
Three Democratic senators filed amicus briefs Tuesday in a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals case challenging the legality of NSA’s phone metadata collection program (http://bit.ly/1tL9Y95). The senators, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Mark Udall of Colorado and Martin Heinrich of…
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New Mexico, are on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The trio said they “have seen no evidence that the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records has provided any intelligence of value that could not have been gathered through means that caused far less harm to the privacy interests of millions of Americans.” The government has also interpreted its authorization for the phone records program -- Patriot Act Section 215 -- in a manner that “could authorize bulk collections of information far beyond the call records at issue in this case, such as financial or medical records, or even records indicating the location or ordinary Americans,” they said. The senators urged the 9th Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling in the case, Smith v. Obama (case No. 14-35555). A hearing is expected in November, said an Electronic Frontier Foundation blog post (http://bit.ly/1rIHK93).