Democrats demand Obama 'end the bulk collection of phone records'

Sens. Mark Udall (D-CO) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) demanded that President Barack Obama “end the bulk collection” of the public’s phone records.

“We need to strike a better balance between protection America from terrorism and protecting the civil rights of Americans,” Sen Udall said on the Senate floor. “The Patriot Act’s bulk-phone record collection does not achieve that balance. Tonight I am calling on the White House to end the bulk collection of phone records.” “Americans have been presented with false choices: You can have your security and you can have your liberty but you cannot have both,” Sen Wyden said. “I think Americans have come to understand that this set of false choices is not what this debate is all about and they deserve better.”