Senator Leahy’s Bill Is Stricter on NSA Than House’s

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said that next week he would file a new version of a bill aimed at ending the National Security Agency’s bulk phone records collection program after extensive negotiations with the Obama Administration and privacy groups. Leahy’s draft bill is said to make over a dozen changes to a version of the legislation, called the USA Freedom Act, that the House passed in May. Some privacy advocates who had denounced the House bill as too watered-down said they backed Leahy’s draft. Leahy’s bill tightens the language in the House version intended to prevent the bulk collection of business records about Americans.