The Obama administration on Wednesday released formerly classified documents outlining a once-secret program of the National Security Agency
that is collecting records of all domestic phone calls in the United
States, as a newly leaked N.S.A. document surfaced showing how the
agency spies on Web browsing and other Internet activity abroad.
Together, the new round of disclosures shed even more light on the scope
of the United States government’s secret surveillance programs, which
have been dragged into public view and debate by leaks from the former
N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the newly
declassified documents related to the domestic phone logging program at
the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the topic.
Simultaneously, The Guardian published a still-classified 32-page presentation leaked by Mr. Snowden that describes the N.S.A.'s XKeyscore program, which mines Internet browsing information that the agency is apparently vacuuming up at 150 network sites around the world.
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