Claiming his terrorist surveillance in 20 countries - Reuters

A statement from U.S. intelligence was Saturday announced after pressure from politicians to release more information about government surveillance.

The letter does not provide details about which countries and terrorist plot in question for, except to refer to “a comprehensive” Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, writes NBC News.

Claiming they will enlighten

According to NSA (National Security Agency) work is however getting released this information so that American citizens are aware of the usefulness of such monitoring.

Last week, more and more information about the scope of the monitoring emerged. Saturday informed Facebook that the U.S. government asked them for information about the users at least 9000 times in the second half of last year.

Investigating 300 phone

Sunday shows a document that was leaked to the news agency Reuters that hundreds of millions of phone calls was saved by the NSA. But the talks that the government decided to look into, apparently not affected more than just under 300 phone numbers, type NTB.

information collected by the NSA, is about who’s calling each other and times the calls takes place.

debate on monitoring has raged in the United States by Edward Snow Its leaks.