According to new reports, it has been revealed that the US government kept secret records of the Americans' international phone calls that began almost a decade before the 9/11 attacks.
Reports said that for more than two decades, the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration kept logs of virtually all calls between the U.S. and as many as 116 countries linked to drug trafficking, reported Fox News.
Department of Justice spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said that the program was suspended in September in 2013 and finally terminated.
He said that the agency is not collecting bulk telephony metadata any longer form US service providers.
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