WASHINGTON: The top US intelligence chief is seeking a criminal probe into bombshell leaks of US monitoring of Internet users and phone records, amid a furor over the secret programs' threat to privacy.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed on Saturday that US spy agencies use a system called "PRISM" to gather data trails left by targeted foreign citizens using the Internet outside the United States.
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