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January 19, 2010

FBI Illegally Collected More Than 2,000 Call Records
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The Washington Post reports the FBI illegally collected more than 2,000
US telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism
emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to
provide records.



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