Civil liberties groups: Don’t stop on NSA reform

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Dozens of civil liberties groups are calling on Congress not to stop short in reforming the National Security Agency. The Bill of Rights Defense Committee led other organizations in a letter warning Congress against stopping with the USA Freedom Act, a bill currently in the Senate that would end the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records. Lawmakers should pass that bill “and then immediately turn your attention to more meaningful and comprehensive reform of the [NSA’s] overreaching and unconstitutional surveillance practices,” the groups wrote. The USA Freedom Act is “an important first step in curtailing the NSA’s abuses of fundamental constitutional rights, but it would not be enough,” they added.


Civil liberties groups: Don’t stop on NSA reform