White House Moving To End Bulk Data Collection

The Obama administration is moving toward ending bulk data collection on Americans.

Without congressional approval, the White House failed to ask the secretive Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court to renew the program by a Friday deadline.The administration also began taking its own steps to end the NSA’s controversial phone records collection program.

“We’ve said for the past several days that the wind-down process would need to begin yesterday if there was no legislative agreement,” one administration official told The Hill early on Saturday morning. “That process has begun.”

The administration’s decision means that the post-Sept. 11 spying program, which was revealed in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, will come to an end — at least temporarily.

It’s a defeat for the Obama administration, which has repeatedly warned that failure to renew the surveillance powers would put the nation’s security at risk.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.