June 06, 2013

Senators say Verizon monitoring ‘nothing new’ - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com

Senators say Verizon monitoring ‘nothing new’ - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com:

Republicans still have their fishing polls out...The top two leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the widespread monitoring of Verizon phone calls made in the United States has been going on for years, and that Congress is regularly briefed on it. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) also defended the National Security Agency’s request to the company for all the metadata about phone calls made within and from the United States.


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