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msravi on June 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for h...

But nothing is known about how long the NSA keeps records. So couldn't the NSA just shrug off the request saying that they don't have the record and not reveal any more details on their retention policy under the pretext that revealing anything more is a national security risk?

3A2D50 on June 13, 2013 [–]

>But nothing is known about how long the NSA keeps records.

They've admitted to at least five years.

See 1:58:45 [1] when Feinstein confirms with Alexander.

[1] http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CybersecurityThreats

graue on June 13, 2013 | [–]

More precisely, at 2:00:35, "...and are deleted after a period of five years."

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