Privacy watchdog says NSA programme illegal

Al Jazeera English 2014-01-24

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The US National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone records provides only minimal benefits to countering terrorism, is illegal and should end, a federal privacy watchdog has concluded. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher reports from Washington, D.C.
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