House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat seeks to end NSA bulk phone-data collection

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that he favors ending the National Security Agency’s widespread collection of U.S. citizens’ phone data, making him the first of the four leaders of the congressional intelligence panels to do so.

In an interview, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.) said he is crafting legislation to replace the NSA’s collection of phone data with a system in which phone companies would provide the agency with daily alerts on numbers suspected of terrorist activity.

House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat seeks to end NSA bulk phone-data collection - The Washington Post.