So why do they keep lying about it?
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US warrantless wiretapping predates 9/11
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US warrantless wiretapping predates 9/11
Fuel to the fire
by John Leyden
Published Tuesday 18th December 2007 21:00 GMT
Fresh evidence has emerged that the US government's warrantless wiretapping program predates the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Secret surveillance operations that enabled the National Security Agency (NSA) to access telecommunications traffic data have been in place since the 1990s, according to the New York Times. In an attempt to gain intelligence on narcotics traffickingThe NSA forged an uneasy alliance with telcos to gather data on phone calls and emails from the US to Latin America.
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