Saturday, June 8, 2013

Breaking News -- Parts of NSA's PRISM program declassified

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***USATODAY.com Breaking News***
The National Security Agency's classified PRISM program is an internal government computer system used to manage foreign intelligence collected from Internet and other electronic service providers, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said. The disclosure Saturday marks the most extensive explanation from the government of what the program is, how it works and what it is authorized to collect. Clapper said he declassified the details of the NSA's surveillance and intelligence collection programs "in hope that it will help dispel some of the myths and add necessary context to what has been published." The Washington Post and the London-based Guardian newspaper reported Thursday night that the NSA and FBI siphoned personal data from the main computer servers of nine major U.S. Internet firms.
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