I used to read the Washington Post back when they ran articles like this one:<p>> "NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls, By Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani March 18, 2014"<p>> "The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country’s telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place, according to people with direct knowledge of the effort and documents supplied by former contractor Edward Snowden."<p>Those days are long gone, however. This is most likely linked to other interesting news, i.e. the NSA awarded AWS (owned by the owner of the WaPo) a $10 billion contract in Aug 2021 (and before that CIA gave a $0.6 billion contract to AWS). The purchase price of the WaPo was $0.25 billion or so. Check out that return on investment!<p>Basically, the WaPo is serving as the CIA/NSA propaganda arm and the rewards to the paper's owner are not unsurprising. Remember Big Brother Loves You... and such vast snooping powers would never be turned against the American people by a corrupt gang of insider criminals...