Judges sitting on the FISC have repeatedly approved the NSA spying programme for 90-day periods and ruled it legal – a position that held strong until Judge Leon’s unexpected ruling.
Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said the NSA would be willing to modify the phone records surveillance programme to provide civil liberties protections, as long as the programme remained operationally beneficial.
He added the Obama administration was carefully evaluating the advisory panel’s recent recommendations.
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