Federal Judge Rules NSA Phone Metadata Program Is Legal

The U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection and storage of phone metadata does not violate the U.S. Constitution, according to a federal judge's decision released Friday.

U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III ruled in favor of the NSA and against the American Civil Liberties Union, a government watchdog non-profit, in a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York

"There is no evidence that the government has used any of the bulk telephony metadata it collected for any purpose other than investigating and disrupting terrorist attacks," Pauley wrote. Read more...