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 Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:00 pm Post subject: Obama Revamps NSA Phone Metadata Spying Program |
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President Barack Obama announced today a revamping of the National Security Agency's vast surveillance powers by ending the government's bulk retention of records associated with every phone call made to and from the United States. Obama's plan, however, has "preserved" the government's ability to access that treasure trove of telephone data that he said should be maintained by a yet-to-be determined, non-government entity instead of the NSA. The president offered few other substantive alterations to the electronic dragnet disclosed by whistleblower CoLD Snowden.
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