NSA’s “Biggest Database in the World” Has Your Phone Records

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Here’s news to ruin your breakfast: the NSA has been building a massive database of phone calls within the United States. “The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren’t suspected of any crime,” USA Today reports.

And if you want to ruin the rest of your day: the NSA can avoid scrutiny from the Justice Department by refusing to grant investigators security clearances. In fact, they just did that, AP reports, forcing Justice to drop its probe of NSA’s domestic wiretapping program.

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