Senators Push Bill to End Phone Record Collection
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON September 26, 2013 (AP)
By DONNA CASSATA Associated Press
Spying by the National Security Agency has cost the United States economically and angered allies, a bipartisan group of senators said Wednesday in unveiling legislation that would end the collection of millions of Americans' phone records and data on Internet usage.
Three Democrats — Oregon's Ron Wyden, Mark Udall of Colorado and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut — and Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky outlined their legislation to end longstanding NSA surveillance practices and open up some of the actions of the secret federal court that reviews government surveillance requests.
The lawmakers argued that their bill is the appropriate response to disclosures this past summer about the sweeping surveillance programs — one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism.
Wyden said the programs and revelations have undercut U.S. businesses required to provide data to the intelligence community while infuriating foreign leaders. Earlier this week, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff accused the United States of violating her country's sovereignty by sweeping up data from billions of telephone calls and emails that have passed through Brazil, including her own.
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Mark Udall 
And here's some 
for the other three.
... I think the meta-data should be saved so that if it is needed in the future investigators will have access to it.
Tele-coms do not keep it very long and once they delete it off of their systems it is gone forever - that is one of the main reasons the NSA keeps backups of it currently.
