Articles by Shane Harris
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Metadata May Not Catch Many Terrorists, But It’s Great at Busting Journalists’ Sources
Shane Harris – Foreign Policy,
30 Sep 2013
The National Security Agency says that the telephone metadata it collects on every American is essential for finding terrorists. And that’s debatable. But on Monday [23 Sep 2013], a former FBI agent and bomb technician pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to the Associated Press about a successful CIA operation in Yemen. As it turns out, phone metadata was the key to finding him.
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