Section 215 more useless than we suspected yet they still want to keep it
The controversial surveillance program that gave the NSA access to the phone call records of millions of Americans has cost US taxpayers $100m – and resulted in just one useful lead over four years.
That’s the upshot of a report [PDF] from the US government's freshly revived Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). The panel dug into the super-snoops' so-called Section 215 program, which is due to be renewed next month.
Those findings reflect concerns expressed by lawmakers back in November when at a Congressional hearing, the NSA ..
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