Ordinary Americans Outnumber Foreigners in NSA Spy Sweep

A report in a major U.S. newspaper says when the National Security Agency intercepted the online accounts of legally targeted foreigners over a four-year period, the agency also collected the conversations of nine times as many ordinary Internet users, both Americans and non-Americans. The Washington Post, in a story posted on its website late Saturday, says nearly half of the surveillance files contained names, e-mail addresses or other details the NSA marked as belonging to U.S....

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