The federal government might actually expand the controversial
surveillance program that collects Americans’ phone records in a bid to
preserve evidence for the multiple lawsuits filed against the National
Security Agency, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The
decision comes despite President Obama’s instruction in a speech on
American surveillance practices last month that government officials
find a way to end the data collection program.Obama
tasked Attorney General Eric Holder and members of the intelligence
community with finding a way to wind down the government program without
eroding the government’s intelligence capabilities. But, according to the Journal,
government lawyers are worried that, if they shut down the program,
they could violate evidence preservation rules requiring them to
maintain the databases amid ongoing litigation...more
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