NSA Can Retrieve, Replay All Phone Calls From a Country From the Past 30 Days

An anonymous reader sends this news from the Washington Post: "The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording '100 percent' of a foreign country's telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden. ... The voice interception program, called MYSTIC, began in 2009. Its RETRO tool, short for “retrospective retrieval,” and related projects reached full capacity against the first target nation in 2011. Planning documents two years later anticipated similar operations elsewhere."

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Saddam lied about WMD in Iraq, and tricked George Bush

Do you have complete and utter contempt for all readers here or do you actually believe that dubunked bit of blatant propaganda which was actually paid material from an advertising agency?