NSA wins battle over phone records collection as court lifts injunction

A U.S. appeals court has sided with the National Security Agency, striking down a lower court's injunction ordering the agency to stop collecting some domestic telephone records.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday reversed a preliminary injunction against the NSA ordered by Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Leon, in a strongly worded December 2013 decision, ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of domestic phone records likely violated the U.S. Constitution, but he delayed the injunction pending an appeal by the NSA and Department of Justice.

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