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"NSA is deleting 685 million records obtained over three years" - That would be an average of 228 million per year.

Wondering if this number of 685 million reveals that they had a file on every U.S. citizen over a certain age with a cell phone. If each "record" represents a folder on a citizen for one calendar year. It seems likely that the Hell-On-Earth faction was building files on everyone. And this would also explain why the NSA is now deleting that data because the NSA is now on the good side of the fight.

The below calculation does not prove anything, but it is an example of how the numbers are not inconceivable for this:

The U.S. population (official estimate) is around 326 million, with around 23% under age 18 (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217).

So that would mean 251 million adults. If around 9% of those didn't have cell phones for whatever reason (elderly, extreme poor, anti-tech, sharing phone with spouse, etc) then that would result in the number of 228 million seen above.

From James Clapper testimony in 2013:

<Wyden: "...the NSA director (Keith Alexander) was at a conference and he was asked about the NSA surveillance of Americans. He replied, ‘The story that we have millions, or hundreds of millions, of dossiers on people is completely false.’ Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?"

>Clapper: "No, sir."

<Wyden: "It does not?"

>Clapper: [Awkward pause]

>Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps..."

Clapper later admitted he made a mistake. "My response was clearly erroneous," he wrote.

Barack Obama in an interview with CNN said Clapper should have been more careful - "He had a lassified program that he couldn't talk about..."

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/mar/11/james-clappers-testimony-one-year-later/