POLITICO — The controversial National Security Agency program that gathers information on telephone calls made by millions of Americans has been extended for nearly three additional months, the Obama Administration announced Friday afternoon.
President Barack Obama has endorsed storing some of the so-called metadata with telephone companies instead of the NSA and querying it on a case-by-case basis when needed for terrorism investigations. Legislation to facilitate that approach passed the House in May, but the Senate is still studying the issue.
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