Burgess Statement on President’s Changes to NSA Program
Washington,
January 17, 2014
Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26) released the following statement on the president changing the current National Security Agency (NSA) telephone data collection program.
Burgess Statement on President’s Changes to NSA Program
Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26) released the following statement on the president changing the current National Security Agency (NSA) telephone data collection program. “Today’s announced changes to the National Security Agency’s Section 215 metadata collection program is an admission by President Obama of the overreach of government that has occurred under his watch. While the program was authorized before his taking office in 2009, mission creep has made it unsustainable. “At the same time, making changes to the way intelligence is gathered and collected by the U.S. government is the job of Congress, not for the president to unilaterally decide not to follow the law. Today’s announcement is yet another in a long line of decisions by this administration to ignore the law.” ###
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