A federal appeals court ruled against the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone call information on Thursday, completely rejecting the government's legal justification for the program.
A three-judge panel of
the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York unanimously found that
Congress has not given the NSA approval for storing massive amounts of
data so that it can be searched later.
The court said federal law permits gathering information
only when there's something specific to investigate. By contrast,
today's ruling says, the government is storing huge amounts of data so
that it can be searched later when the need arises.
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