By Julian Hattem
The Hill

A group of conservative and environmental organizations is suing the National Security Agency (NSA) in order to obtain records about top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…

However, along with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, the conservative group claims that the NSA also has that data and has not been handing it over despite repeated requests.

“Here there have been clear public admissions that the NSA has collected telephone and text message metadata, the very records requesters have sought,” the groups said in a lawsuit filed on Monday.

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