Speaking on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) said changes to foreign intelligence surveillance court proceedings are needed and proposed adopting “a real court proceeding” to approve wiretapping requests, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Let’s have an advocate for someone standing up for civil liberties to speak up about the privacy of Americans when they make each of these decisions,” Durbin said, along with proposing the release of redacted FISA court transcripts. In a special to The Washington Post, Sens. Mark Udall (D-CO) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) urge the White House to “end the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records and instead obtain information directly from phone companies, using regular court orders based on individual suspicion.” The prevailing sentiment, The New York Times reports, is that momentum is building in Congress to alter NSA surveillance. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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