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NSA Spying Branches Out

Domestic calls, email, financial transactions under scrutiny—all without a warrant

By Lucas Laursen, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 10, 2008 2:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Traditionally charged with foreign surveillance, the NSA has increasingly been analyzing data collected domestically, reports the Wall Street Journal—on a scale comparable to that of a Pentagon proposal Congress killed 5 years ago. "When it got taken apart, it didn't get thrown away,... Read full story »

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