Congress Curbs NSA Spying Two Years After Snowden Disclosure
The Senate voted 67-32 Tuesday to limit NSA spying while reviving three other anti-terrorism surveillance programs that expired Monday.
VANCOUVER, CANADA - MARCH 18: Edward Snowden is interviewed via a BEAM remote pressence system during the 2014 TED confernece March 18, 2014 in Vancouver, Canada. Snowden said the biggest revelations have yet to come out of the estimated 1.7 million documents he acquired from the National Security Agency.
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Congress voted to stop the National Security Agency from collecting bulk records on Americans’ phone calls almost two years after Edward Snowden began revealing details of classified U.S. government spy programs.
The Senate voted 67-32 Tuesday to limit NSA spying while reviving three other anti-terrorism surveillance programs that expired Monday. The House passed the measure in May. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law.