Senator Presses NSA Director on Warrantless Searches

By JM Rieger

Posted January 29, 2014 at 2:11pm

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hammered National Security Agency Director James R. Clapper Jr. on Wednesday, calling for the NSA to provide an unclassified response as to whether it conducted warrantless searches of private communications.

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