FOIA Response Shows NSA Improperly Collected Americans’ Call Records, ACLU Says
NSA improperly collected Americans’ call records in October, four months after it reported fixing underlying problems that caused earlier failures, said the American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday, citing documents it got under the Freedom of Information Act. ACLU asked House…
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Judiciary Committee leaders to end such call detail record authority under Patriot Act Section 215. "These documents provide further evidence that the NSA has consistently been unable to operate the call detail record program within the bounds of the law," the group wrote, asking to "end the flawed Section 215 call detail record authority." Lawmakers will consider whether to renew year-end expiring parts of the law (see 1905060048). "Technical irregularities that led NSA to delete data last summer were identified and addressed," a spokesperson emailed us. "Since that time, NSA identified additional data integrity and compliance concerns caused by the unique complexities of using company-generated business records for intelligence purposes. Those data integrity and compliance concerns have also been addressed and reported to NSA’s overseers, including the congressional oversight committees and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court." The status of the program “is a deliberative interagency process that will be decided by the Administration" (see 1904240068), the representative said.