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...defend a highly classified National Security Agency program that includes interception of domestic phone calls and e-mail messages without warrants if one of the parties has known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. Hayden said at the National Press Club in January: "It is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations that we then sort out by these alleged keyword searches or data-mining tools or other devices that so-called experts keep talking about. This is targeted and focused...
...calls that suspected al Qaeda operatives overseas are making to the United States. And since legislation passed after 9/11 gives him that authority as part of the war on terror, they argue, the President does not need to go to Congress for any new authority. "[This] is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations" in a data mining exercise, says General Michael Hayden, the deputy director of national intelligence and former NSA chief. "This is targeted and focused. This is not about intercepting conversations between people in the United States. This is hot pursuit of communications...
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