Call it the law of unintended consequences: Lawsuits brought forth by
National Security Agency spying revelations may actually prompt the
agency to expand its controversial program — at least in the short term.
Officials
told the Wall Street Journal that evidence that may be needed in court
proceedings can not be discarded. Since it must be stored somewhere,
millions of phone records of Americans will end up in a database that
would otherwise be destroyed.
The Journal reported that officials
haven't made a final decision to preserve the data, though one
official said it would only be retained for litigation and wouldn't
be subject to searches.
Cindy Cohn, legal director at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing the federal government
over NSA phone spying programs, told the Journal that getting rid of
older records is not an option.
"If they're destroying evidence,
that would be a crime," she said. Ms. Cohen believes the government
should save the phone records, as long as officials can not search
through them.
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