Intelligence Community - with impending IG report on FISA abuse and long track record on surveillance abuse - seeks reauthorization of controversial NSA bulk collection program that was previously shuttered.
@SenMikeLee Sally Yates ally Brad Wiegmann - now at DOJ NSD - gets taken to task by Sen. Lee for ignoring Congressional letters re: data collection concerns.
"We're not messing around here... it adds deeply to my suspicion."
@SenMikeLee Sen. Coons [referring to the previous deletion of improperly collected mass collection records]: "Has there been any loss in intelligence value as a result ?"
NSA's Susan Morgan: "That's something that's impossible to answer."
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@SenMikeLee The NSA program had previously been closed after recent findings of:
(1) Abuse in the collection of millions of records; and
(2) Using those improperly obtained records to obtain additional records "pursuant to a court order"