Judge: NSA Surveillance "Indiscriminate" and "Arbitrary Invasion" of Privacy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 17, 2013

A judge has ruled that widespread phone data-gathering by the NSA may be unconstitutional. Richard J. Leon wrote "I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval." Siobhan Gorman, intelligence correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, discusses the ruling and the latest news from the national security world.

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