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- The high court's inaction Monday means the future of the phone surveillance program will most likely play itself out in the political theater before the judicial arena. Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the stated provision allowing the bulk collection, expires June 1, 2015.
There are some 30 different legislative packages in Congress on the topic. And Obama said he wants to overhaul the surveillance process altogether by removing the metadata from the possession of the nation's spooks.