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On April 5, according to this slide, there were 117,675 active surveillance targets in PRISM's counterterrorism database. The slide does not show how many other Internet users, and among them how many Americans, have their communications collected "incidentally" during surveillance of those targets.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...



The slide itself says 117675 records, not active surveillance targets.


Oh, wow, I'm not sure how I hadn't see that before. Thanks for the info. Now to ponder how I feel about it...




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