NSA scooped up ~56,000 emails of Americans per year with no connection to terrorism from 2008-2011

[Catherina]

NSA Collected Thousands of US Communications
WASHINGTON August 21, 2013 (AP)
By KIMBERLY DOZIER AP Intelligence Writer
Associated Press

The nations' top intelligence official is declassifying three secret U.S. court opinions showing how the National Security Agency scooped up as many as 56,000 emails annually over three years and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism, how it revealed the error to the court and changed how it gathered Internet communications.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper authorized the release Wednesday.

The opinions show that when the NSA reported to the court in 2011 that it was inadvertently collecting as many as 56,000 Internet communications by Americans with no collection to terrorism, the court ordered the NSA to find ways to limit what it collects and how long it keeps it.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nsa-collected-thousands-us-communications-20026969

This footnote from the just-declassified FISA court ruling on unconstitutional NSA surveillance is extraordinary




"NOT WITTINGLY" Arrest that perjurer NOW.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. 56K... that's like the same amount of emails sent in ONE DAY.. for one company network.

Millions of emails are sent per day....

[Aerows]

8. A tiny company network. n/t

[kelliekat44]

2. If this story is correct...there is not much there since NSA disclosed the info on its own and then

changed it operations as ordered by the court. What am I missing?

[nashville_brook]

3. k and r

[Catherina]

5. Just updated to add how the court was "troubled" about "substantial misrepresentation"

and "repeated inaccurate statements made in the government's submissions". Like that's a surprise.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Lets do the math

294 billion e-mails sent per day (1) x 365 days is = 107,310,000,000,000 (or 107 Trillion)

Lets say only 10% are generated in the US = 10,731,000,000,000

56,000 errors /10,731000,000,000 = 5.21853E-09, I think that works out to .00000000521853% of all e-mails. Seems like a quality benchmark any company/organization would be proud of.






(1) http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/emails_per_day.htm

[MineralMan]

6. That few? Surprising, really.

Given the number of emails sent each day on the Internet, that number seems surprisingly small.

[railsback]

7. I thought they were spying on EVERYONE

This has got to be the most inept tyrannical STASI government ever.

[snooper2]

9. that's right about how many I get a year...So the rest of you are all good

[struggle4progress]

10. If the US has about 100 million email users, each of whom sends one nonspam message daily,

three-year total in the OP represents only two or three seconds of US internet traffic during the period