Sentence examples for * the metadata collection from inspiring English sources

Coll said: The metadata collection can be used for criminal prosecutions and is used for criminal prosecutions..

Leon's opinion contained stern and repeated warnings that he was inclined to rule that the metadata collection performed by the NSA – and defended vigorously by the NSA director Keith Alexander on CBS on Sunday night – was unconstitutional.

Just as intractable a problem for the metadata collection program's challengers is the highly restrictive nature of the rules governing access to FISC proceedings.

Wyden fumed in secret about Clapper's lie -- but felt he could not reveal it because the metadata collection program was classified.

The Second Circuit began its analysis by laying bare the "staggering" scope of the metadata collection program.

When new revelations disproved this last June, Clapper then said the NSA had to keep the metadata collection program a secret for national security purposes.

Two weeks later, in New York, Judge William H. Pauley III ruled that the metadata-collection program was lawful and effective.

In December, a judge in a different case found that the metadata-collection program probably is unconstitutional.

All of the metadata collected is thus relevant, because the success of this investigative tool depends on bulk collection.

But Comey's act of defiance did not end the IP metadata collection, the documents reveal.

Rogers told ABC News that the phone metadata collection program was the key to stopping Zazi: "Well, I can tell you, in the Zazi case in New York, it's exactly the program that was used," he said.