NSA Collecting Phone Records For Millions Of Verizon Customers, Report Says -- FOX News
The Obama administration has been collecting the phone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a British newspaper report which raised new and troubling privacy questions.
A senior law enforcement official pushed back on the report early Thursday morning, telling Fox News that the Justice Department has not yet received a referral from the intelligence community, meaning "the process has not started yet."
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180,000 Air Force civilians face furlough under sequestration -- Federal Times
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