Federal Spending Bill Demands NSA Report on Data Collection
Number of phone records collected and how many of them were viewed
Tucked inside the massive new government spending bill are several demands from Congress that the National Security Agency finally report to Congress on the details of its snooping programs, including the number of telephone records collected and the number actually viewed by NSA employees.
The 1,532-page bill, which funds the government for fiscal year 2014, also demands the NSA report on all of its other bulk data collection programs, which could expose some of the email tracking programs the government has reportedly run.
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Will NSA have to report to the full Congress, or can they just deliver the numbers to their stooges in the intelligence committees?