NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2014. The National Security Agency’s bulk phone records collection is illegal and should be shut down, according to a new report released today by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent executive branch committee.
The report from the PCLOB – the oversight committee created by Congress in 2007 – found that the bulk collection of phone records has yielded only minimal benefits to counterterrorism efforts. It also details why…
