NSA illegally collected thousands of emails illegally, US admits

 

 

 

A National Security Agency surveillance system illegally gathered up to 56,000 personal emails by Americans annually, declassified court documents show.

Officials revealed that a judge in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled the programme illegal in 2011.

The communications were between people with no links to terror suspects. 

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