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Watchdog Group Says NSA Phone Record Program Is Illegal
Yet another analysis has concluded that the National Security Agency's collection of bulk phone-call records has had "minimal" benefits in counter-terrorism. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board also says it's illegal and ought to be stopped. Josh Meyer covered terrorism for the Los Angeles Times.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readYet another analysis has concluded that the National Security Agency's collection of bulk phone-call records has had "minimal" benefits in counter-terrorism. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board also says it's illegal and ought to be stopped. Josh Meyer covered terrorism for the Los Angeles Times. He's now a journalism professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Washington, DC.
