Administration Statement on Telephony Metadata
The administration issued this statement yesterday on NSA collection under Sections 702 and 215. The entire statement---which describes controls on the programs, their broad parameters, and their value in counterterrorism cases---is worth a read.
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The administration issued this statement yesterday on NSA collection under Sections 702 and 215. The entire statement---which describes controls on the programs, their broad parameters, and their value in counterterrorism cases---is worth a read. This excerpt, however, describes a significantly new fact---just how few times the database actually gets queried:
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
