In a statement on Tuesday, Clapper said the August court opinion "affirms that the bulk telephony metadata collection is both lawful and constitutional".
First, and perhaps foremost, it is unencumbered by the delusion that bulk metadata collection is a practice that will only traipse on bad people.
That evidently cannot be said, however, of the ruling politicians in Australia, where an analogous programme of metadata collection is under consideration.
James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence, lauded the opinion as one that "affirms that the bulk telephony metadata collection is both lawful and constitutional".
It is a kind of catch-all term that might indicate the time of receipt of an email or phone call, or the location where a picture was taken (not the email, the phone call or the picture itself).The sprawling US programme of metadata collection is now under scrutiny by US courts.
Our approach to metadata collection is to automate the process whenever possible.
"I don't want anybody to misunderstand a vote agains the Amash resolution yesterday," Pelosi said, adding that she was putting together a letter with members who voted both for and against the amendment that will raise "concerns about how the metadata collection is conducted".
VICE has obtained disclosures that reveal for the first time since this program was made public that FISA Court judges have not only owned Verizon stock in the last year, but that at least one of the judges to sign off on the NSA orders for bulk metadata collection is a proud shareholder of the company complying with these requests.
VICE has obtained disclosures that reveal for the first time since this program was made public that FISA Court judges have not only owned Verizon stock in the last year, but that at least one of the judges to sign off on the NSA orders for bulk metadata collection is a proud shareholder of the company complying with these requests. .
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.
