PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
Published on Apr 8, 2015
A report says the US Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Agency spied on millions of Americans long before the nine-eleven terrorist attacks.
According to an investigative report by USA Today, the operations involved collecting call logs, telephone numbers, and the date and time the calls were made.
The spying was conducted on Americans even if they were not suspected of a crime.
The report adds that the spying operation had approval from the highest levels of the U-S government.
It became a model for the massive phone surveillance system the National Security Agency later launched to identify terrorists.
