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Spy Court: NSA Can Keep Collecting Phone Records

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A U.S. spy court has ruled that the National Security Agency can keep collecting Americans' phone records.

The approval is the first since two conflicting court decisions about whether the program is constitutional.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is planning to sue the government over the NSA spying practices, and he's encouraging Americans to join him in a class action suit.

Paul says one single warrant should not apply to everyone who has a cell phone in America.

"The idea of a class-action lawsuit with hundreds of thousands of participants really brings to the forefront the idea that this is a generalized warrant and it should be considered unconstitutional," he said.

A presidential advisory panel also recommended that the NSA no longer be allowed to collect and search phone records without obtaining separate court approvals for each search.

A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that 15 judges on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on 36 occasions over the past seven years have approved the NSA's collection of U.S. phone records as lawful.

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