Day: June 30, 2006

Lawmakers on House and Senate intelligence committees say that while the National Security Agency has amassed a huge database of Americans’ calling records, cooperation with the NSA by telephone companies was not as widespread as USA Today initially reported, the newspaper said Friday.

The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June, officials in the border states said.