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NSA can reportedly record every call made in a foreign country

posted onMarch 19, 2014
by l33tdawg

The National Security Agency has the capability to record "100 percent" of the telephone calls placed in a foreign country and play them back up to a month later, according to a report Tuesday by The Washington Post.

Known as MYSTIC, the surveillance system dates back to 2009, according to documents supplied to the newspaper by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The program, which wasn't fully operational until 2011, intercepts and records and stores billions of calls for 30 days on a rolling buffer that purges the oldest recordings as new ones arrive, according to one classified summary cited by the newspaper.

The Post said it withheld, at the request of US officials, the identity of the targeted nation and other nations where the program's use was envisioned.

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