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US spy chiefs admit snooping on Americans
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President Barack Obama’s national security has team acknowledged for the first time that it has the ability to read the phone records of millions of Americans while looking for just one terrorism suspect.
Appearing before the Senate judiciary committee, John Inglis, the NSA’s deputy director, conceded that his agents can track the telephone activities of millions of Americans while searching for one terrorism suspect, but said that agents “try to be judicious” in their searches.
The Obama administration has previously stated that such records are rarely searched and, when they are, officials target only suspected foreign terrorists.
The searches described to the judiciary committee hinge on the “chain” analysis of information gathered on telephone communications. When the NSA identifies a suspect, it can look not just at their phone records, but also the records of everyone they call, everyone who calls those people and everyone who calls those people.
If the average person called 40 people, the analysis would allow the government to mine the records of 2.5 million Americans when investigating one suspect. The NSA conducted 300 such searches last year.
The Democratic senator, Dick Durbin, said: “So what has been described as a discrete programme, to go after people who would cause us harm, when you look at the reach of this programme, it envelopes a substantial number of Americans.”
“We are open to re-evaluating this programme in ways that can perhaps provide greater confidence and public trust that this is in fact a programme that achieves both privacy protections and national security,” Robert Litt, counsel to the director of National Intelligence, told the judiciary committee.
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