Watchdog says NSA phone spying program is illegal and should end

[Chris Smith]

A report from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) that should be released on Thursday says that the NSA’s phone spying program is illegal and should end, The Washington Post revealed. “We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation,” the 238-page report says. “Moreover, we are aware of no instance in which the program directly contributed to the discovery of a previously unknown terrorist plot or the disruption of a terrorist attack.”

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