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From the page: "Secret surveillance operations that enabled the N-t--n-l S-c-r-ty Ag-ncy to access telecommunications traffic data have been in place since the 1990s, according to the New York Times. ... [I]t took until 2004 for one unnamed carrier to break ranks and refuse to provide customer data, the paper reports. ... News that the --- eavesdropped ... without warrants first emerged two years ago. The latest revelations that this was a development of a much longer running practice that also involved US domestic calls come as the Bush administration is pushing Congress to pass legislation indemnifying telecoms carriers from liability in assisting law enforcement with warrantless eavesdropping programs. Since 2005, the warrantless wiretapping program has become the topic of 40 lawsuits.

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