Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the US Senate committee charged with holding the intelligence establishment to account, declared on Monday that the National Security Agency’s mass collection of phone records is “not surveillance” and should be maintained as an essential tool to combat terrorism.
Feinstein made the case for retaining the program, which routinely collects and stores the phone records millions of Americans, in an op-ed for USA Today, in which she wrote that the NSA‘s work had been “effective in helping to prevent terrorist plots against the US and our allies”. Continue reading “Feinstein defends NSA data collection and insists program is ‘not surveillance’”

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