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Julian Hattem, Staff Writer, The Hill

President Barack Obama aims to stop the National Security Agency from collecting bulk telephone metadata. Instead, he wants phone companies to store the data an...

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April 1, 2014 11:30 am

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President Barack Obama aims to stop the National Security Agency from collecting bulk telephone metadata. Instead, he wants phone companies to store the data and make it available to the NSA with a judge’s permission. He’s asked Congress for a legislative fix to NSA surveillance within 90 days. The whole program expires next year, so there’s pressure to do something. Julian Hattem, staff writer for The Hill newspaper, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp what the prospects are for a new law now.