WASHINGTON – Two federal judges came to such widely different conclusions about the government’s telephone surveillance program in December that the U.S. Supreme Court likely won’t ignore the issue.

The conflicting opinions, issued 11 days apart, have ushered the judiciary into the national debate over National Security Agency powers that followed the leak of classified documents in June, and that now includes calls for reforms from Congress and the White House.

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