The Administration released a White Paper on Friday that summarized its claimed legal basis for the bulk collection of telephony metadata, also known as the Associational Tracking Program under section 215 of the Patriot Act, codified as 50 U.S.C. section 1861. Among other topics, the White Paper uses strained legal reasoning to create a new definition of "relevance" and tries to justify the use of prospective orders for records not yet created.