NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time

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The National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md. (Photo: Patrick Semansky, AP)

The National Security Agency improperly collected phone call records of Americans last fall, months after a previous breach that compelled the agency to destroy millions of records from the contentious program, documents released Wednesday revealed. The redacted documents, obtained by the ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, do not indicate how many records NSA improperly collected in the October breach, nor which telecommunications provider submitted the improper data. “These documents provide further evidence that the NSA has consistently been unable to operate the call detail record program within the bounds of the law,” the ACLU said in a letter to Congress this week lobbying for an end to the program.

Source: www.usatoday.com