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Chief Statistician briefs Shaukat Tarin on data collection techniques - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: After taking Oath of Office, the Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin held an introductory meeting with the Secretary Planning, Development & Special Initiatives/Chief Statistician to evaluate the current techniques of data collection and analysis used by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) in Islamabad on Monday. The Chief Statistician gave a detailed briefing to the new Finance ...

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Time. you left back in 2001. you were upset about what you said the nsa was using, with some data collection techniques. you had actually created it. >> it was more like the data they were taking in. it was coming from the telecoms, the specific one that i knew was at&t. at&t was giving nsa on the order of 320 million records of u.s. citizens communications with other u.s. citizens every day. >> what do you make of this current disclosure about whats going on? >> this is the fbi trying to get ev...