Papers reveal spy programme origins

America’s intelligence chief has released more documents that tell how the National Security Agency was given the go-ahead to start collecting bulk phone and internet records in the hunt for al Qaida terrorists.

Papers reveal spy programme origins

America’s intelligence chief has released more documents that tell how the National Security Agency was given the go-ahead to start collecting bulk phone and internet records in the hunt for al Qaida terrorists.

They also shed light on how a court eventually gained oversight of the programme after the Justice Department obeyed a federal court order to release its previous legal arguments for keeping the programmes secret.

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