NSA's Collection of Phone Records 'Has No Basis in the Law'

"The collection of phone records by the National Security Agency has no basis in the law, a member of an independent federal advisory board said Wednesday," The Hill reported on a Congressional hearing yesterday in which members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board testified. The Hill further reported: "'With all respect to both executive branch officials and judicial officials, nobody looked at the statute as carefully was we did,' James Dempsey, the vice president for public policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee."