&gt;Citation needed.<p>&gt;By September 2004, the NSA had developed a technique that was dubbed “The Find” by special operations officers. The technique, the Post reports, was used in Iraq and “enabled the agency to find cellphones even when they were turned off.”<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;nsa_can_reportedly_track_cellphones_even_when_they_re_turned_off.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;future_tense&#x2F;2013&#x2F;07&#x2F;22&#x2F;nsa_can_r...</a>