Geoffrey Stone on the USA Freedom Act

Enact the USA Freedom Act

Next week, the Senate is scheduled to take up the proposed USA Freedom Act. It is imperative that the Senate approve this legislation.

The USA Freedom Act addresses many of the issues raised by the NSA's program of bulk telephone metadata collection. This program, which has caused such consternation, was approved by the Senate and House Intelligence Committees, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the White House. Under the program, the NSA was authorized to collect from telephone service providers massive amounts of indiscriminate data about Americans' phone call records.

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