Documents released on NSA origins
Sunday, December 22, 2013
WASHINGTON -- The director of national intelligence declassified more documents Saturday that outline how the National Security Agency was authorized to start collecting bulk phone and Internet records in the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists and how a court gained oversight of the program, after the Justice Department complied with a federal court order to release its previous legal arguments for keeping the programs secret.
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