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Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry
By ERIC LICHTBLAU, JAMES RISEN and SCOTT SHANE
Published: December 16, 2007

"This NYTimes story gives new details on the telecom carriers' cooperation 
with secret NSA (and other) domestic spying programs. One revelation is 
that the Drug Enforcement Agency has been running a program since the 
1990s to collect the phone records of calls from US citizens to Latin 
America in order to catch narcotics traffickers. Another revelation is 
what exactly the NSA asked for in 2001 that Qwest balked at supplying. 
According to the article, it was access to the company's most localized 
communications switches, which primarily carry domestic calls."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/washington/16nsa.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=e6aa872194ef69e8&ex=1355461200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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