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The US government Thursday, June 6 said a top spy agency was using a “crucial tool” against terrorism by sweeping up domestic telephone records, but new revelations on the program sparked a swift backlash. One civil liberties group branded the practice, authorized by a top secret court order, as “beyond Orwellian” while others argued the idea of a massive dragnet encompassing tens of millions of phone records was unconstitutional. The program, which began under the Bush administration, apparently does not monitor the content of telephone calls or who is making them, but provides “metadata” on phone numbers used and the duration of calls.
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