Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, author of a bill to curb the National Security Agency mass collection programs, said restricting government surveillance would be a top priority for 2014.

Leahy told Vermont Public Radio on Monday that he fears more intrusive government surveillance programs if Congress doesn’t act to reform the NSA.

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