The Senate passed a significant remake of U.S. surveillance powers Tuesday, after an internal split among Republicans delayed consideration of the bill and caused the legal authority for key counterterrorism programs to temporarily expire. The USA Freedom Act, a bill that would end the National Security Agency’s practice of collecting troves of call data from telephone companies, passed on a 67 to 32 vote. It would instead mandate a six-month transition to a system in which the data would remain in private hands but could be searched on a case-by-case basis under a court order. Read more http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...f5e1ce-092d-11e5-a7ad-b430fc1d3f5c_story.html
