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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by garyfirestorm on Friday May 04, 2018 @07:19PM (#16999214)
Ummmmm. How do they achieve that by tapping 500 million local calls? Let me guess, the locals call rest of the world.
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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by gknoy on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @03:37AM (#17019477)
Their claim is that it's in order to listen to the conversations where a foreign person of interest is the other party. :)

Don't get me wrong, I don't like the surveillance either, but domestic terrorism isn't their job. Sure, if they notice something, they will pass it along, but it's not what they are looking for (I believe). If there's been a proverbial ball dropped, it's probably more accurate to blame the FBI than the NSA.

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