WaPo Editorial: How to reform the NSA’s metadata program

WaPo Editorial: How to reform the NSA’s metadata program:

THE DIRECTOR of national intelligence announced on July 19 that a court had renewed one of the government’s most controversial surveillance programs – the collection of a vast database of so-called metadata from Americans’ phone calls. The phone metadata effort does not appear to be an obviously unconstitutional abuse of civil liberties. Yet at least two things should bother Americans about it.