Verizon FISA Court Ruling

Document Date: April 25, 2013
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Agency: Press
Document Type: Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Legal Authority: Section 215
Records Collected: Telephony Metadata

Internal NSA presentation slide featuring a FISA court ruling ordering Verizon to provide the NSA all telephony metadata between the US and abroad and within the US. This order proves that the NSA is collecting telephone records of millions of Americans in bulk on a daily basis, regardless of any suspicions of wrongdoing.