This week the Obama administration declassified hundreds of pages of documents related to the National Security Agency's controversial spying program. The release includes an
87-page ruling in which the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court first approved a program to track the emails of Americans during the Bush administration. The documents revealed that email
metadata, but not the content, was scanned to search for associates of terrorist suspects. The program terminated in 2011.
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