Wednesday, April 8, 2015

US collected data on Americans overseas phone calls for decades - USA Today

The first intelligence program to track data on Americans telephone calls overseas started in the early 1990s, USA Today newspaper reports.

The program was intended to target drug trafficking and  became the model for the post September 11, 2001 surveillance.

Our U.S. correspondent Priscilla Huff reports:

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