Senators Push National Security Officials for Information on Efficacy of Surveillance Programs

摘要

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., pushed panelists for information onnhow often phone metadata has been critical to national security investigations, during a Wednesday committeenhearing on oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the Foreign IntelligencenSurveillance Court (FISC) system that issue the orders authorizing surveillance. Senators and witnessesndebated the merits of instituting a system within FISC that would allow judges to hear argumentsnagainst new surveillance programs, rather than the current system, under which judges hear only the government'snarguments in favor of surveillance.