U.S. Declassifies New Documents On NSA Surveillance

This Sept. 19, 2007, file photo, shows the National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret ... This Sept. 19, 2007, file photo, shows the National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Cailf., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency's need to collect such records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach. MORE LESS
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James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, on Wednesday declassified and made public a number of documents concerning National Security Agency surveillance programs under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

“The Administration is undertaking a careful and thorough review of whether and to what extent additional information or documents pertaining to this program may be declassified, consistent with the protection of national security,” reads an ODNI statement.

Read the documents, including a number of secret court opinions, here.

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