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We begin with a major set back for the National Securitys bulk phones collection today. Ed program goes beyond what congress envisioned under the patriot act. And lisa stark join us and what did they say about it, and how is the Obama Administration reacting . Well, tony, the court soundly rejected the rationale used by first the Bush Administration and now the Obama Administration to justify this massive collection of phone records. They were collecting the length of time and the date though not the contact. The government argued that this data could be relevant to future terrorism investigations, but the court found such an expansive concept of relevance is unprecedented and unwarranted. This is pretty enormous ruling today for the court to hold that a program that the u. S. Government was implementing for over a decade was unlikely under what congress passed. Now, it was nsa documents leaked by Edward Snowden, back in 2013, that revealed the extent of this phone surveillance program

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