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Responding to the revelations detailing the US government's massive surveillence programs in recent days, President Obama on Friday said called the two programs–one which allows the collection of virtually all phone records produced in the United States and the other which allows the National Security Agency to search through the private digital data of the world's most popular internet systems–as merely a “modest encroachment.”
But Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner of the ACLU
This article originally appeared on: Common Dreams