national security agency collected information about americans phone records without the authority to do so last fall. it happened months after the fed said they deleted a massive database of phone records that the nsa had improperly collected going back to 2015. we re just learning about this latest incident through documents made public in a lawsuit that the american civil liberties union filed against the nsa. the spy agency reportedly got the records under a controversial phone surveillance program launched following the attacks of 9-11. the former contractor, edward snowden exposed the program in 2013. it collects call records, but not the content of those calls. the jennifer griffin reporting live at the pentagon. jen? the records obtained by the aclu revealed that not once but twice in the past year the dnsa