Senate Intel Chairman Mistakenly Says NSA Collects IP Addresses In Bulk Under The Patriot Act

BuzzFeed - According to the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Agency ended the bulk collection of internet metadata in 2011. Sen. Richard Burr's office told BuzzFeed News that the senator misspoke. Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr Alex Wong / Getty Images WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Burr briefly set intelligence watchers abuzz Thursday when, during a speech on the Obama administration telephone surveillance program, he said the program also collects IP addresses of internet users potentially connected to terrorists. "Now what's bulk data? Bulk data is storing telephone numbers and IP addresses — we have no idea who they belong to — that are domestic … [it] allows the NSA to collect in bulk telephone numbers and IP addresses with no identifier on it. We couldn't tell you who that American might be," Burr, who is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said when discussing section 215 of the Foreign Surveillance Intellige