Turns out that the NSA is illegally spying on US citizens:

Between January 2004 and April 2005 the National Security Agency has received between 3,000 and 3,500 requests to reveal the names of American citizens caught in the Agency’s listening network. The NSA fulfilled every single request. According to Newsweek’s sources the identities and private conversations of more than 10,000 American, British, Canadian and Australian citizens were supplied to American officials.

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