[Senate Report 113-211]
                                                       Calendar No. 472
113th Congress                                                   Report
                                 SENATE
 2d Session                                                     113-211

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            DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2015

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                 July 17, 2014.--Ordered to be printed

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           Mr. Durbin, from the Committee on Appropriations, 
                        submitted the following

                                 REPORT

                        [To accompany H.R. 4870]

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                    NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY REPORTS

    The Committee directs the National Security Agency [NSA] to 
provide to the congressional intelligence committees, and the 
Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the House Committee on 
the Judiciary, no later than 90 days after enactment of this 
act:
  --A report, unclassified to the greatest extent possible, 
        setting forth:
    --For the last 5 years, on an annual basis, the number of 
            records acquired by NSA as part of the bulk 
            telephone metadata program authorized by the 
            Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, pursuant 
            to section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and the 
            number of such records that have been reviewed by 
            NSA personnel in response to a query of such 
            records; and
    --To the extent possible, an estimate of the number of 
            records of United States persons that have been 
            acquired by NSA as part of the bulk telephone 
            metadata program and the number of such records 
            that have been reviewed by NSA personnel in 
            response to a query.
  --A report, unclassified to the greatest extent possible, and 
        with a classified annex if necessary, describing all 
        NSA bulk collection activities, including when such 
        activities began, the cost of such activities, what 
        types of records have been collected in the past, what 
        types of records are currently being collected, and any 
        plans for future bulk collection.
  --A report, unclassified to the greatest extent possible, and 
        with a classified annex if necessary, including a list 
        of terrorist activities that were disrupted, in whole 
        or in part, with the aid of information obtained 
        through NSA's telephone metadata program and whether 
        this information could have been promptly obtained by 
        other means.



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