NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center

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But will it pass?

http://news.yahoo.com/senators-outline-b...itics.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who oversee U.S. intelligence agencies say they'll work to limit the National Security Agency's use of U.S. phone and email records, while also broadening the government's spying powers to allow monitoring of terror suspects who travel to the U.S. after being tracked overseas by the NSA.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during a hearing Thursday. The law has come under fire by some in Congress after disclosures by Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former systems analyst on contract to the NSA, stirred concerns among Americans that their civil liberties are being violated.

Feinstein said legislation her committee is drafting would "strictly limit access to the... phone metadata records, expressly prohibit the collection of the content of phone calls," and limit the amount of time such U.S. phone call data could be kept. Such records show the date and length of calls, and the numbers dialed.