A fight has begun over another of the US government’s mass surveillance systems – with two Senators raising questions about an unusual data deletion by the National Security Agency (NSA). Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rand Paul (R-KY) have sent a letter[PDF] to the NSA’s inspector general asking him to look into the agency’s torching of metadata for hundreds of millions of phone calls. “We write to request that you conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding, and any systemic problems that may have led to, the deletion by the National Security Agency (NSA) of certain call detail records (CDRs) collected from telecommunications service providers pursuant to Title V of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA),” the letter begins.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
