It was revealed today that the NSA has been creating the world's largest database of phone calls and phone records in the history of the US. Not only that, but they have also prevented the Justice Department from looking into the program at all to check for illegal activity. What is going on with this administration? What is scary is that if this program was just revealed, which started in 2001, what other programs might the government be doing without us knowing?
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.
Justice Department turned away by NSA. HUH?
"We have been unable to make any meaningful progress in our investigation because OPR has been denied security clearances for access to information about the NSA program," OPR counsel H. Marshall Jarrett wrote to Hinchey. Hinchey's office shared the letter with The Associated Press.