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17. Hi Tarheel, Just FYI Obama Administration Defends NSA Collection Of Phone Record..

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 05:53 PM

Jun 2013

In response to a report by the Guardian about the National Security Agency collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers, a senior Obama administration official provided this statement to TPM:

The article discusses what purports to be an order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court under a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorizes the production of business records. Orders of the FISA Court are classified. On its face, the order reprinted in the article does not allow the Government to listen in on anyone's telephone calls. The information acquired does not include the content of any communications or the name of any subscriber. It relates exclusively to metadata, such as a telephone number or the length of a call.

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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-administration-defends-nsa-collection-of-phone-records

h/t http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/06/the-truth-hurts-but-its-the-truth/

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