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FISC Approves Government’s Request to Modify Telephony Metadata Program

Posted on February 6, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

From James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence:

February 6, 2014

During his speech on Jan. 17, 2014, President Obama ordered a transition that will end the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it currently exists, and establish a mechanism that preserves the capabilities we need without the government holding this bulk data. As a first step in that transition, the President directed the Attorney General to work with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ensure that, absent a true emergency, the telephony metadata can only be queried after a judicial finding that there is a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the selection term is associated with an approved international terrorist organization. The President also directed that the query results must be limited to metadata within two hops of the selection term instead of three.

To put these two changes into effect, the Department of Justice filed a motion with the FISC to amend its most recent Jan. 3, 2014, primary order approving the production of telephony metadata collection under Section 215. Yesterday, the FISC granted the government’s motion. In addition, the FISC ordered the government to do a classification review by Feb. 17, 2014, of the Jan. 3 primary order, the government’s motion to amend that order, and the order granting the motion. Following completion of the review, the motion and two orders will be published as appropriate on the FISC’s website, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will post them to its website and icontherecord.tumblr.com.

 

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1 thought on “FISC Approves Government’s Request to Modify Telephony Metadata Program”

  1. joe says:
    February 10, 2014 at 8:27 am

    To whom it may concern, treat this metadata collection news with EXTREME SKEPTICSM. We’ve only to look to the NSA’s director James Clapper and the governments history of deceiving the public.

    James Clapper lied to Congress about NSA and should be fired
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/27/darrell-issa-james-clapper-lied-to-congress-about-nsa-and-should-be-fired/

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