Jacob Sullum on NSA Surveillance Restrictions

Outrage over the National Security Agency’s
mass collection of phone records has not been limited to the
general public. Legislators are also angry, as reflected in the
privacy protection bill that two House committees unanimously
approved last week. By exceeding the powers that Congress
thought it had granted, Jacob Sullum writes, the Obama
administration seems to have assured passage of the most
significant surveillance reforms since the PATRIOT Act was approved
in 2001.

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