A U.S. House of Representatives committee has taken a major step toward outlawing the NSA’s controversial bulk collection of telephone and other business records generated by U.S. residents. The ...

Records collecting defended DOJ and NSA officials defended the phone records collection program, saying the bulk collection of phone records is allowed in the Patriot Act.

WASHINGTON — The fate of the bulk collection of American phone records by the National Security Agency is now before the Senate, in what is increasingly looking like a game of legislative chicken.

Third, bulk collection has not made us any safer. Virtually every independent review of the NSA's phone-records program has concluded that it hasn't stopped any terrorist attacks, and that the ...

Congress did not extend the powers with expiration approaching. — -- The National Security Agency has begun "winding down" the once top-secret bulk collection of Americans' phone records ...