NSA conducts broader surveillance

The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of emails and phone calls - without court orders - than the Bush Administration has acknowledged, the New York Times reported.

The agency, with help from American telecommunications companies, obtained access to streams of domestic and international communications.

The story quoted a former technology manager at a major telecommunications firm as saying that companies have been storing information on calling patterns since the September 11 attacks, and giving it to the federal Government.