'NSA collects under 30 percent of all phone data'

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http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/r5HPJtsFel2yHZw7Ft2Fig--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/e9d6a722080ad40d8fd88eec4cacace84a348004.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/39-nsa-collects-under-30-percent-phone-data-000857541.html)Lawmakers have suggested the NSA's controversial bulk phone data program scooped up virtually every phone call in America, but officials told the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal the agency has struggled to gather data from mobile phones. The explosion in cell phone use has presented a technical and logistical problem for the eavesdropping agency, which has a much more comprehensive collection of landline phone records, the newspapers said. The controversial program, first revealed during George W. Bush's presidency, seeks to track extremists or other intelligence targets by scooping up phone records, including the numbers called and the duration of the calls, but not the content of the conversations. The bulk data collection once covered close to 100 percent of Americans' phone records, but last year the portion dropped to between 20 to 30 percent, current and former officials told the newspapers.



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