Thursday, August 1, 2013

US spy chiefs admit snooping on Americans

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Deputy director says NSA has ability to read phone records of millions of citizens while looking for one terror suspect.

President Barack Obama's national security has team acknowledged for the first time that it has the ability to read the phone records of millions of Americans while looking for just one terrorism suspect.

Appearing before the Senate judiciary committee, John Inglis, the NSA's deputy director, conceded that his agents can track the telephone activities of millions of Americans while searching for one terrorism suspect, but said that agents "try to be judicious" in their searches.

The Obama administration has previously stated that such records are rarely searched and, when they are, officials target only suspected foreign terrorists.

More @ Aljazeera

 

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