The National Journal reports that the
FISA court has once again approved NSA's continuing mass surveillance of phone metadata of American citizens.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to keep the NSA's mass surveillance of U.S. phone metadata operating until June 1, coinciding with when the legal authority for the program is set to expire in Congress.
This is the fifth extension requested by the Obama administration since he stated that he wants to end the program after it was exposed by Edward Snowden but the administration refuses to do so without the approval of Congress.
"While the administration waits for the Congress to act, it has continued to operate the program with ... important modifications in place," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement released late Friday.