Cotton Introduces Bill Postponing Termination of NSA Phone Records Collection Program

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Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, introduced a bill Tuesday that would delay the implementation of the USA Freedom Act, legislation passed in June that ends the NSA’s practice of storing U.S. phone records (the date, time, duration and numbers dialed–but not the content or identity of the caller–of all calls) in a database that may be searched during national security investigations.

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