Published on Jan 23, 2014
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board concluded the National Security Agency's bulk phone metadata program is illegal, according a report released Thursday on their independent review of the program.
"The Section 215 program has contributed only minimal value in combating terrorism beyond what the government already achieves through these and other alternative means," the report said.
"Cessation of the program would eliminate the privacy and civil liberties concerns associated with bulk collection without unduly hampering the government's efforts." RT's Ameera David talks to retired Col.
Morris Davis, a law professor at Howard University, about the PCLOB report and how it differs from President Barack Obama's proposed NSA reforms, outlined in a speech last Friday.
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