Joint Statement From the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the Declassification of Renewal of Collection Under Section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 8, 2014. Earlier this year in a speech at the Department of Justice, President Obama announced a transition that would end the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it previously existed, and that the government would establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk data.  As a first step in that transition, the President directed the Attorney General to work with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…