Bush Admin. Spying On Tens Of Millions Of Americans...

First Posted: 03/28/08 03:43 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 12:50 PM ET

USA Today :

The government is secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls in an effort to build a database of every call made within the country, it was reported Thursday.

AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telephone companies began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls to the National Security Agency program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said USA Today, citing anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement.

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