Letter to Attorney General Requesting Reports on Telephone Surveillance Program
July 8, 2013
The Brennan Center for Justice, along with 22 other good government groups, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice urging the Attorney General to make public any reports by the Department’s Inspector General regarding the collection of Americans’ telephone records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
The Inspector General has previously reviewed and reported on the FBI’s activities under Section 215. Any discussion of the telephone collection program, however, was redacted from public reports because the program was classified. Now that the government has declassified the existence of the program and many details about it, there is no longer any justification for withholding the Inspector General’s conclusions from the public.
