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Personal date taps collects by the government as part of counterterrorism intelligence gathering operation. "the new york times" says cia paying at&t more than $10 million a year for access to phone records. our justice reporter is following the story for us. are we talking about calls overseas or here in the united states? >> no, wolf, this is -- these are calls -- foreign calls, foreign phone numbers, calling other foreign phone numbers. and the cia is looking for terrorism suspects, for instance, to find out who else they're calling. now, there are some instances where these foreigners are ...