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NSA Inadvertently Intercepted Emails, Phone Calls of Innocent Americans

Two former U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) massive trawling program previously scooped up the private email messages and phone calls of innocent Americans with no ties to terrorism. This prompted the Obama Justice Department to destroy the data. Ret. Adm. Dennis Blair, who served as President Obama’s DNI in 2009 and 2010, told NBC News that, in one instance in 2009, analysts entered a phone number into agency computers and “put one digit wrong,” and mined a large volume of information about Americans with no connection to terror. The matter was reported to… View Article