!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is an [National Security Agency] ([NSA]) [Government Data Store] and analysis toolset for intercepted [Internet] [metadata] for hundreds of [billions] of [Telecommunications] calls made through the largest telephone carriers in the [United States]: [AT&T] and [Verizon].

[{$pagename}], according to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James Risen, was the most important of the four components that comprised the [ThinThread] program.


[{$pagename}] equivalent for Internet traffic is [MARINA]

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* [#1] - [MAINWAY|Wikipedia:MAINWAY|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2018-11-07-