Member of Federal Advisory Board: NSA Has Been Operating Outside of the Law

Says "the words just don't add"

The collection of phone records by the National Security Agency has no basis in the law, a member of an independent federal advisory board said Wednesday.

"With all respect to both executive branch officials and judicial officials, nobody looked at the statute as carefully was we did," James Dempsey, the vice president for public policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.