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MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): The nation's top intelligence official today declassified documents showing that, for three years, the National Security Agency, or NSA, collected more than 50,000 e-mails a year between Americans with no connection to terrorism.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2011 ruled the collection methods unconstitutional. And today's documents show changes the NSA made so that the program, designed to target foreign intelligence, could continue.
The release came hours after The Wall Street Journal reported the NSA has built a surveillance network covering roughly 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, including e-mails, Web searches and Internet phone calls of Americans.
And we're joined now by Siobhan Gorman, intelligence correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
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