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National Security Letters — Part 1

1188 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Dec 4, 1981 · Broad topic: General · Topic: National Security Letters · 1018 pages OCR'd
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How much do you pay them for the service? How much are the taxpayers paying the telephone companies that they pay to provide them services to spy on us? CAPRONI: T don't know what the dollar value of the contracts are. WATERS: You have no idea? CAPRONI: I actually don't. WATERS: You've never heard any discussion about it? CAPRONI: I'm sorry, I don't. [ just don't know what the amount is. WATERS: Information was collected on millions of Americans using this as a tool, Now that you know that they were innocent, they probably should not have been under investigation, has all of this information been purged and gotten rid of? CAPRONI: We did not collect records on millions of Americans through... WATERS: How did it work? CAPRONI: The exigent letters were provided to the carriers, which promised future process. That future process, unfortunately, it was not always promptly provided. WATERS: What did they do? What did they do? CAPRONI: What did who do? WATERS: The companies. How did they mine the information? And did they mine information of innocent people? CAPRONI:
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