FBI illegally snooped

According to The Washington Post, the FBI illegally gathered records of more than 2,000 domestic telephone calls between 2002 and 2006.

The FBI illegally gathered records of more than 2,000 domestic telephone calls between 2002 and 2006, by invoking nonexistent

terrorist threats or by simply asking phone companies for the information, The Washington Post reported. The bureau often justified the privacy violations by issuing approvals for its record-collecting after the fact.

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