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Page 4A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Tuesday, June 2, 2015 No more NSA collection of U.S. phone records night Sunday. The NSA had stopped gathering the records from phone companies WASHINGTON — However hours before the deadline. And oth- &RQJUHVVUHVROYHVLWVLPSDVVHRYHU er post-9/11 surveillance provisions government surveillance, this much considered more effective than the is clear: The National Security phone-call collection program also Agency will ultimately be out of the ODSVHGOHDGLQJLQWHOOLJHQFHRI¿FLDOV business of collecting and storing to warn of critical gaps. The legislation now before the Americans’ calling records. Aiming for passage Tuesday 6HQDWHNQRZQDVWKH86$)UHHGRP afternoon, the Senate on Monday Act, would reauthorize the surveil- prepared to make modest changes lance but would phase out NSA to a House bill that would end the phone records collection over time. collection while preserving other It passed the House overwhelming- surveillance authorities. But while ly and is backed by President Barack &RQJUHVV GHEDWHG WKH ODZ DXWKR- Obama. Sen. Rand Paul, who rizing the collection expired at mid- doesn’t believe it goes far enough in By KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer restricting the government, objected anew on Monday, but he can’t stop a vote to end debate scheduled for Tuesday morning. If the bill becomes law over the next few days, the NSA will resume gathering the phone records but only for a transition period of six months, in the House version, or a year in the Senate version. If the bill fails amid congressio- nal politics, the collection cannot resume, period. The turn of events is a victory for Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who disclosed the phone records collection in 2013. Senators on the intelligence com- mittee had been issuing veiled and vague warnings about the program for years, saying if Americans only knew how the Patriot Act was being interpreted they would be outraged. But it was Snowden who re- vealed the details. Because of Snowden, “people have some more insight into exactly how they are being spied upon and how the law has been twisted to au- thorize mass surveillance of people who have no connection to a crime RU WHUURULVP´ VDLG +DUOH\ *HLJHU VHQLRU FRXQVHO ZLWK WKH &HQWHU IRU Democracy and Technology, an ad- vocacy group that supports the USA )UHHGRP$FW Justices boost workplace religious protections :$6+,1*721 $3 ² 7KH 6XSUHPH &RXUW VWUHQJWK- ened civil rights protections Monday for employees and job applicants who need special treatment in the workplace be- cause of their religious beliefs. The justices sided with a Muslim woman who did not get hired after she showed up to a job interview with clothing UHWDLOHU $EHUFURPELH )LWFK wearing a black headscarf. The headscarf, or hijab, vio- lated the company’s strict dress code, since changed, for em- ployees who work in its retail stores. Employers generally have to accommodate job applicants and employees with religious needs if the employer at least has an idea that such accom- modation is necessary, Justice Antonin Scalia said in his opin- ion for the court. Job applicant Samantha Elauf did not tell her interview- er she was Muslim. But Scalia said that Abercrombie “at least religious beliefs in most in- stances. Elauf’s case turned on how employers are supposed to know when someone has a religious need to be accommo- dated. The decision does not, by itself, resolve her case. In- stead, it will return to the 10th 86&LUFXLW&RXUWRI$SSHDOV in Denver, which earlier ruled against her. Some business groups said Monday’s ruling will force em- ployers to make assumptions about applicants’ religious be- liefs. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File “Shifting this burden to In this Feb. 25 file photo, Samantha Elauf stands outside employers sets an unclear and the Supreme Court in Washington. 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The ruling was a narrow victory for civil liberties groups that had urged the court to make it tougher to convict people who make crude comments on social media that might be viewed as threatening. Yet the high court declined to lay out broad con- stitutional protections for such comments. “It is not QHFHVVDU\WRFRQVLGHUDQ\)LUVW$PHQGPHQWLVVXHV´ Roberts wrote. 7KHFRXUWODQGHGWKH¿QDOEORZDJDLQVWDQ$UL]R- na law that denied bail to immigrants who are in the country illegally and are charged with certain felonies, marking the latest in a series of state immigration pol- icies that have since been thrown out by the courts. The court rejected a bid from metro Phoenix’s top prosecutor and sheriff to reinstate the 2006 law after a lower appeals court concluded late last year that it vio- lated civil rights by imposing punishment before trial. Eastern Oregon Business Source is the solution for professional training and strategy development needs. 541-215-9252 www.eobusinesssource.com Still, the current legislation would hardly count as a defeat for the NSA, Snowden’s former em- SOR\HU$JHQF\ RI¿FLDOV LQFOXGLQJ former Director Keith Alexander, have long said they had no prob- lem with ending their collection of phone records, as long as they could continue to search the data held by the phone companies, which the legislation allows them to do. 7KH 86$ )UHHGRP$FW GRHVQ¶W address the vast majority of Snowden revelations, which con- cern NSA mass surveillance of JOREDO ,QWHUQHW WUDI¿F WKDW RIWHQ sweeps in American communica- tion. Tuesday, June 2, 2015 NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Page 5A &ODVKRISULRULWLHVGH¿QHVGHEDWHDVFDPSDLJQWDNHVRII By LISA LERER and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press Listen to the Republican candidates for president and they’ll tell you the country faces a dire threat from ter- rorism, and is on the brink of falling victim to Islamic State militants. “I’m afraid some Amer- icans have grown tired of ¿JKWLQJ WKHP´ 6RXWK &DU- olina Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday when kicking off his campaign. “I have bad news to share with you: the radical Islamists are not WLUHGRI¿JKWLQJ\RX´ Meanwhile, in a Demo- FUDWLF¿HOGWRSSHGE\WKHQD- tion’s former top diplomat, foreign policy rarely comes up. 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