Tuesday, October 22, 2013
NSA took 70.3M French phone records in 30 days
The National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md.
As Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris, the French government summoned the U.S. ambassador to explain extensive spying on a close ally.
PARIS — The U.S. National Security Agency swept up 70.3 million French telephone records in a 30-day period, according to a newspaper report that offered new details of the massive scope of a surveillance operation that has angered some of the country's closest allies. The French government on Monday summoned the U.S. ambassador for an explanation.
The report in Le Monde, co-written by Glenn Greenwald who originally revealed the NSA surveillance program, found that when certain numbers were used, the conversations were automatically recorded. The surveillance operation also swept up text messages based on key words, Le Monde reported, based on records from Dec. 10 to Jan 7.
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