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Obama Administration Had Restrictions On NSA Reversed In 2011

Obama Administration Had NSA Restrictions Reversed

The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans' communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

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