Wiretaps said to sift all overseas contacts

Vast US effort seen on eavesdropping

From the Boston Globe: http://tinyurl.com/8yx2z

"They have a capacity to listen to every overseas phone call," said Tom
Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington
University, which has obtained documents about the NSA using Freedom of
Information Act requests.

It seems that the technology has developed somewhat since LaCourse
worked for the NSA.

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