An self-governing revaluation , by a board made up of senior x - administration fellow member , has conclude that the National Security Agency ’s long - running program to collect telephone set records is illegal and should stop .
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ( PCLOB)has write a report — whose contents was shared with Obamaahead of his language last week — which say that the statute upon which the spying is found “ does not provide an adequate basis to support this program . ” In other words , it ’s illegal and should be block off .
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The panel ’s conclusions go further than Obama ’s . While the President is repetitive that the NSA ’s speculation are lively for national security system , the self-governing panelis less convinced :
“ We have not identified a individual case involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records programme made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigating . Moreover , we are mindful of no case in which the program directly contributed to the discovery of a previously unknown terrorist secret plan or the disruption of a terrorist plan of attack . ”
The 238 - page report is bound to cause debate , especially given that it disagrees with Obama , 15 federal surveillance court judges and the Justice Department — butagrees with the residue of us — in concluding that the actions of the NSA can not be grounded in discussion section 215 of the USA Patriot Act .
The board was made up of Rachel L. Brand and Elisebeth Collins Cook ( Justice Department during the George W. Bush administration ) , David Medine ( former Federal Trade Commission functionary in the Clinton governing body ) , James X. Dempsey ( public insurance policy expert with the Center for Democracy & Technology ) , and Patricia M. Wald ( a retired Union appeal court of law judge ) .
The board was n’t unanimous on the issue of end bulk collection , with Brand and Collins both conclude that the program could be modified in such a way as to make it fit to continue . disregardless , though , the message is clear : not all senior official imagine that what the NSA is doing is good or proper . [ Washington Post ]
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