Sensenbrenner-Leahy Surveillance Proposal Gains Congressional Momentum

摘要

Lawmakers outlined potential fixes to allegedly overbroad surveillance activities of the U.S. government,rnspeaking during a Cato Institute event Wednesday. They said they object to intelligence agencies’rnbulk collection of phone metadata and alleged broad lack of transparency and accountability. Thernmembers of Congress focused on a new piece of legislation pending introduction — the USA FreedomrnAct, which would end bulk collection of phone metadata, among other changes (CD Oct 4 p10), and is tornbe sponsored by House Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner, RWis.,rnand House Judiciary Committee ranking member John Conyers, D-Mich.