(WASHINGTONTIMES) — The National Security Agency’s phone-snooping program is on its last legs after senators approved the USA Freedom Act Tuesday, rewriting the sweeping Patriot Act to ban bulk collection of Americans’ data and adding more transparency checks to the secret court that oversees intelligence gathering in the hopes of heading off future surprises.
President Obama has vowed to sign the bill, and is likely to do so quickly, reimposing several Patriot Act powers that expired earlier this week after senators missed a deadline for renewing them.
But the National Security Agency’s phone metadata program has just six months to wind down and expunge its databanks, leaving intelligence officials to try to scramble to set up a new program that will leave the information with the phone companies, and only query it when investigators believe they have a terrorism lead.
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