Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers’ phone records | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/nsa-extended-verizon-trawl-through-court-order
In an unprecedented move )...) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has publicly revealed that the scheme has been extended yet again.
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The announcement flowed, the statement said, from the decision to declassify aspects of the metadata grab “in order to provide the public with a more thorough and balanced understanding of the program”.