Intelligence
A senior U.S.
intelligence official said Tuesday the Obama administration had no backup
plan if Congress didn’t reauthorize a law allowing the bulk collection of
telephone records by its June expiration date.
The White House and many lawmakers want to
create a new program that would limit intelligence officials to
making narrow requests for information, replacing the current system under
which the National Security Agency collects data on telephone calls spanning
several years.
But if the new program isn’t authorized
and the existing program expires, it is unclear how the government might obtain
intelligence through telephone calls that they argue could prevent a future
terrorist attack.
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