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NSA says classified information found on seized hard drives

By Peter Hermann

The National Security Agency says it found top-secret information on hard drives that were seized in a failed espionage probe, and the agency is refusing to release the computers — despite the continued protests of their owners.In court filings in Baltimore this week, the government says the seized computers “cannot lawfully be returned.” NSA’s deputy chief of staff for signals intelligence concluded that disclosing the contents of one computer hard drive would “cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.”

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