NSA Program Monitors An Entire Country's Calls, Has Wizard Mascot

via Washington Post Here is your weekly dose of NSA revelations, reported in the Washington Post from the classified documents cache released by Edward Snowden: the NSA has a program called MYSTIC that can monitor an entire country's telephone calls--100 percent of them--and replay them up to a month later. It's actually in use in a country right now, although it can't be said which one. The program's tool, RETRO, for "retrospective retrieval," stores a bank of phone conversations; every 30 days...