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The Metadata Program in Eleven Documents (New Yorker | 31 December 2013)
Posted by Ryan Lizza
... November, 2001: The phone records of most Americans begin flowing to the N.S.A. ...
... May 23, 2006: The Bush Administration attempts to make the phone-metadata program legal retroactively ...
... March 2, 2009: The FISA Judge Reggie Walton says that the N.S.A. has misled him ...
... December, 2013: Two federal judges reach contradictory conclusions about the legality of the phone-metadata program ...
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/12/a-history-of-the-metadata-program-in-eleven-documents.html#slide_ss_0=1