WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Democrats demanded answers from the
Bush administration Thursday about a report that the government secretly
collected records of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database
of every call made within the country.
"It is our government, it's not one party's government. It's America's
government. Those entrusted with great power have a duty to answer to
Americans what they are doing," said Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the
ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telephone companies began turning over
records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls to the
National Security Agency program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks, said USA Today, citing anonymous sources it said had
direct knowledge of the arrangement.
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My firefox just crashed, but you can find the rest of the story on the
Associated Press web page or probably on any major news page...
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