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Published on Jul 1, 2015
A court in the United States has allowed the country’s National Security Agency, NSA to resume spying on US citizens.
Court documents show a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled that the NSA might temporarily collect domestic phone calls in bulk.
The judge also rejected an appeals court verdict against the surveillance program.
The move comes less than a month after Congress passed the Freedom Act replacing the Bush-era Patriot Act that was used by the N-S-A as the legal basis for spying on U-S citizens.
The Freedom Act allowed the existing espionage to continue for a six-month transition period.
But it remained in legal limbo pending Monday's ruling.
The Justice Department has welcomed the decision.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it will ask the Court of Appeals to issue an injunction to halt the spying program.
