Ellen Nakashima and Robert Barnes
The Washington Post
August 10, 2013
The Obama administration on Friday asserted a bold and broad power to collect
the phone records of millions of Americans in order to search for a nugget of
information that might thwart a terrorist attack.
In a 22-page “white paper,” the Justice Department for the first time
detailed its legal rationale for a massive National Security Agency data
collection program that it claimed is both constitutional and subject to federal
oversight.
The report, which echoes assertions the administration has made to Congress,
said the law and subsequent court decisions bestow broad power on the government
to seek telephone records “relevant” to investigations of suspected
terrorism.
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