NSA phone data collection far more limited than had been disclosed
Source: McClatchy News
NSA phone data collection far more limited than had been disclosed
By KEN DILANIAN
Tribune Washington Bureau
February 9, 2014
WASHINGTON — Although U.S. intelligence officials have indicated since last summer that the National Security Agency was vacuuming up nearly every American telephone record for counter-terrorism investigations, officials acknowledged Friday that the spy agency collects data from less than a third of U.S. calls because it can't keep pace with cell phone usage.
In a speech last month, President Barack Obama called the bulk collection of telephone records the most controversial part of the debate over security and privacy sparked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks of classified material. Obama announced plans to impose greater judicial review on the program and to limit how it can be used. But the NSA operation now seems far less pervasive than it appeared, raising questions about whether it is as essential a terrorist-fighting tool as the NSA and its supporters have argued.
Rather than sweeping in all U.S. call records, officials said, the NSA is gathering toll records from most domestic land line calls, but is incapable of collecting those from most cell phone or Internet calls. The details were first disclosed by The Washington Post.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because much of the program remains classified, said they did not correct the public record because they did not want to tip off potential adversaries to obvious gaps in the coverage.
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Trying to make it seem like they're not spying on us enough. 
Figured this would happen. It was only a matter of time.
Do not think this leak was a coincidence. It falls right after the fact that the Russians showed they were spying on our ambassadors.
right ... totally believable ... 
