{"id":16835,"date":"2019-05-07T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16835"},"modified":"2019-05-07T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T05:21:16","slug":"dems-demand-nsa-update-on-surveillance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16835","title":{"rendered":"Dems demand NSA update on surveillance program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of six Democratic senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee is asking the National Security Agency (NSA) to release a public update on its mass phone data collection program, following reports indicating the spy agency has shut it down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We write to urge that you provide a public description, consistent with protection of sources and methods, of the current status of the call detail record (CDR) program,&#8221; the senators wrote in a letter to Paul Nakasone, head of the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>The group of senators includes the Intelligence Committee&#8217;s vice chairman, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a privacy hawk, and 2020 contenders Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal last month reported that the NSA was recommending the White House officially end the agency&#8217;s mass collection of U.S. phone data.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told the Journal that the NSA has concluded that the program, which gathered metadata on domestic text messages and phone calls, was too burdensome to maintain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since then, there have been no public updates from NSA,&#8221; the senators wrote. &#8220;A public status report will resolve the current confusion, demonstrate the NSA&#8217;s commitment to transparency, and inform Congress&#8217;s deliberations about the possible reauthorization of the program later this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of six Democratic senators&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16836,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16835\/revisions\/16836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}