The Obama administration released a white paper on August 9 about its telephone metadata collection program. The paper is supposed to explain the legal basis for the government's collection of information about all Americans' phone calls. Ultimately, the paper raises more questions than it answers.
We already knew the program was ostensibly authorized by the Patriot Act. We knew the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issues regular orders to the major phone carriers, directing them to send information about every single phone call made in this country — time, length, recipient — to the National Security Agency at the end of every day.
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