FISA Court Reverses Order To Destroy NSA Phone Data

itwbennett writes "The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has temporarily reversed its earlier order that call records collected by the National Security Agency should be destroyed after the current five-year limit. The court modified its stand after a District Court in California on Monday ordered the government to retain phone records it collects in bulk from telecommunications carriers, as the metadata could be required as evidence in two civil lawsuits that challenge the NSA's phone records program under section 215 of the Patriot Act."

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Re:Handy

[Anonymous Coward]

The other two do, in some ways, describe the NSA & FISA

OK, I see Snowden in that definition. Where do you think that describes NSA and FISC?