Policy

Director of National Intelligence Calls Surveillance Leaks 'Reprehensible'

A word some might use to describe what the NSA has been getting up to

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WASHINGTON — The top intelligence official in the United States condemned as "reprehensible" leaks revealing a secret program to collect information from leading Internet companies and said a separate disclosure about an effort to sweep up records of telephone calls threatens "irreversible harm" to the nation's national security.