Obama administration officials announced that they will declassify an order compelling Verizon to disclose phone records belonging to a massive number of Americans, with the intention of publicizing the document before a Senate hearing early Wednesday. The sources, speaking to the Washington Post Tuesday on the condition of anonymity, said the secret order was given by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April 2013. They described the document as the formal order that preceded the Verizon documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in June. The anonymous officials said Snowden’s report was a “secondary order.” The declassification is scheduled to come on the same morning of a Senate Judiciary Committee when members of the Justice Department, NSA and from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are expected to be grilled on the intelligence community’s collection methods and intentions.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:55:02 +0000
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