US declassifies phone program details after uproar
by By DONNA CASSATA and MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats...
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