Interim report on NSA wiretap program released

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An interim report from the intelligence community's inspectors general previews the comprehensive report on warrantless wiretapping due to Congress this summer—but they're saving the juicy details for now.

The Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News has obtained a declassified version of an interim report on an inquiry into warrantless NSA surveillance issued this past fall, a teaser for a comprehensive report by the intelligence community's inspectors general due this summer. (The declassified version, apparently, is identical to the original submitted two months prior, but for one mysterious sentence.) While it's mostly limited to an account of how the agencies are divvying up the reporting task, even that provides a hint of the the departments' roles in the program itself.

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