SACRAMENTO – This past week the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released hundreds of pages of declassified documents that shed light on how the federal government has collected and analyzed domestic phone records under the Patriot Act.

The document dump revealed that for three years the National Security Agency combed through a massive database of Americans' phone records in seeming violation of rules set out by the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The national intelligence director is expected to declassify more documents in the coming months.

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