The government’s email metadata surveillance program suffered from...

The government’s email metadata surveillance program suffered from years of “systemic overcollection,” said a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) decision declassified Monday (http://bit.ly/1oYk1nF). The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified Monday a trove of FISC orders, judicial oversight documents and NSA inspector general audits after a White House review and Freedom of Information Act request by the Electronic Privacy and Information Center. In its blog post, ODNI said “this Internet communications metadata bulk collection program has been discontinued” since 2011 because of the concerns of both the FISC and NSA.