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Focus ed and targeted approach. molly heninburg is here in washington with more. this is the bulk phone data program run by the nsa, the national security agency, that was leaked by edward snowden, a former nsa contractor about two years ago. snowden revealed the government was collecting information on americans phone calls. data on what numbers you were being called in, calling out, duration of phone calls, to try to ferret out any terrorist connections. president obama called for the nsa to shut down the program. congress agreed so it ended yesterday. starting today, the law requires the nsa get a court order and go to the phone companies to get those types of details. the office of the director of national and intelligence put out a statement saying the nsa will have to go to the phone cans with a specific selection term, a term that specifically identifies a person, account, address or personal device in a way that limits the scope of ....

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