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August 17, 2013 07:40 am GMT

I Asked the NSA for Its File on Me, and Here's What I Got Back

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I can't shake the feeling that the National Security Agency thinks I'm a chump.

I mean, I've written a lot about them. I've talked to their media contacts. I've been denied clarifications. I've pored over their press releases and page after page of NSA documents that former contractor Edward Snowden took from them and leaked to the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald.

Yet when I sent the NSA a formal request through the Freedom of Information Act, asking what the agency had collected on me through two big programs — a telephone metadata collection program and PRISM — they acted like I was a total newbie at this stuff. Read more...

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