House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the statement below after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection program is not authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. They are the authors of the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048), which ends bulk collection and reforms our nation’s intelligence-gathering programs operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Source: House Committee On The Judiciary
