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House Judiciary Committee Passes Resolution On NSA Phone Record Surveillance Data

Following up on Domestic Call Records Mined for Expansive Pentagon Database Program, today’s passage by the House Judiciary Committee, voice vote, on H.Res. 819, “Requesting the President and directing the Attorney General to submit to the House of Representatives all documents in the possession of the President and the Attorney General relating to requests made by the National Security Agency and other Federal agencies to telephone service providers requesting access to telephone communications records of persons in the United States and communications originating and terminating within the United States without a warrant”.
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