On November 18, a bill to end the National Security Agency's ("NSA's") bulk collection of telephone records failed to move through the Senate. The Senate first considered the legislation last year when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed U.S. intelligence regarding the collections and storage of communications metadata. The bill would have required the NSA to ask a communications company for records of a specific person when investigating a terrorism case.
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