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Both Google and Facebook called on the government to allow them to publish reports on national security requests. However the Fisa court orders requiring transfer of the data have been top secret, and it appeared very unlikely that the government would comply. The companies, however, have asked.

Senator Lindsey Graham said that US phone metadata collected by the NSA is analyzed for patterns that could indicate dangerous activity. The administration has not previously acknowledged regularly analyzing the phone data of Americans suspected in no crime. It is unknown how the analysis is conduct or what kinds of patterns would trigger further review.

The ACLU brought a lawsuit against the government, charging that the phone metadata harvesting program is unconstitutional and asking the government to stop the collection and purge its records. The ACLU brought the suit as a Verizon customer.

The White House defended director of national intelligence James Clapper's testimony before Congress as "straight and direct," while Clapper himself rated his performance the "least untruthful" possible. Senator Ron Wyden implied sharp criticism of Clapper's seeming duplicity, saying Congressional oversight of intelligence programs is impossible 'if senators aren’t getting straight answers to direct questions."