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CIA 'secret bulk collection program' picked up some Americans' data, senators reveal

Some data belonging to Americans was swept up in a secret CIA mass surveillance program that operated under atypical legal authority for such an operation, according to a letter released Thursday night by two Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The unnamed program operates “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection, and without any of the judicial,...