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6/25/13

NSA deletes fact-sheet from its website

The National Security Agency appears to have removed from its website a two-page "fact sheet" describing the government's use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as it applies to Internet snooping programs. On Monday Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Udall, D-Colo., accused the NSA of providing Americans with false information about civil liberties protections in the document.
The NSA document said communications involving an American are "promptly destroyed" and that "dissemination of any information about U.S. persons is expressly prohibited" except under certain circumstances. Find out more.   [Thanks: BJS]