Feinstein pushes court approvals for NSA
David Lerman, BLOOMBERG
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2014, 1:08 AM
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she supports requiring court approval for all searches of U.S. telephone records, setting the stage for a legislative fight over how to rein in the National Security Agency.
A bill introduced last week by leaders of the House Intelligence Committee wouldn't require the government to get prior court approval when directing phone companies to search their records.
Feinstein (D., Calif.) endorsed a proposal by the Obama administration that would require that all NSA records requests go through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
"A positive element that would come into this is that there would be a court approval of every query," Feinstein said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. "I would support that" ...
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