NSA Surveillance Said to Be Broader Than Initially Believed
Source: The Hill
NSA surveillance said to be broader than initially believed
By Jonathan Easley - 08/20/13 10:00 PM ET
The National Security Agencys (NSA) reach covers about 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic through a slew of partnerships with some of the largest telecom companies in the country, according to a Wall Street Journal report released late Tuesday.
According to the report, gathered from interviews with current and former government officials and telecom industry workers, telecom companies like AT&T filter the data for the NSA, but in looking for communications that begin or end outside of the country, often sweep up unrelated domestic communications.
In addition, the surveillance network at times retains the content of emails and phone calls sent between U.S. citizens as part of a dragnet meant to capture correspondences between foreign targets.
The NSA defended the practice, telling the Journal that if domestic communications are incidentally collected during NSAs lawful signals intelligence activities, that the agency follows minimization procedures that are approved by the U.S. attorney general and designed to protect the privacy of United States persons.
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MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)drip, drip, drip
a few more gallons of water.
Autumn
(44,748 posts)No fucking surprise there.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)oh duh. say where's the news been for 50 yrs?? I'll go back to bed. wake me when we bother to do something about it..
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)pscot
(21,023 posts)gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)fujiyama
(15,185 posts)Actually, no I really don't care to hear what they have to say at this point. Most have been put on ignore at this point. They'll be defending this till the end.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)the list is endless
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Twice a week for the past two months?
leveymg
(36,418 posts)They won't even tell us exactly what the rules are for "minimization." The Agency has no credibility left.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)ok I get it, NSA is wrong, we are a police state, education means nothing and head starts is crap. Voting, who cares, and rape so what, and now. .
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)The NSA is full of shit.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)durablend
(7,415 posts)If you disagree with all this you're emboldening the terrists and helping them win and also helping the Republicans to win.
Red Oak
(697 posts)Given that Netflix video is about 25% of the total Internet traffic in the US and given it is unlikely the NSA actively monitors your streaming video from Netflix, that would mean, given their typical parsing of language, that the NSA monitors 100% of the non-Netflix internet traffic in the US.
I wonder if the SEC has ever had to prosecute an NSA employee or subcontractor for insider trading?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...on a Tuesday during the second full moon of summer of alternating leap years.
Hunh.