The NSA Just Ended Its Controversial Phone Records Program. But...

One of the largest intelligence initiatives of the post-9/11 era is over, but critics worry that it could be revived through a legal loophole.

One of the most infamous signifiers of the post-9/11 era quietly ended on Sunday. The NSA's bulk metadata collection program, which was first revealed by Edward Snowden over two and a half years ago, lost its legal mandate this weekend; the program, which involved the collection of data about phone calls and text messages such as caller and recipient, time and date, and duration but not the contents, will not be renewed.

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