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Sputnik News 11-21-15… “The NSA is Still Spying on Your Email, Even After Saying It Had Stopped”

Saturday, November 21, 2015 1:05
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sputnik_news_logo_204_4More data coming out about the “NSA data collectors”. Here is a link to a related Sputnik News article about this.

“According to the Times, the NSA collected bulk email data through two programs which the agency operated simultaneously – one within the United States and a second one abroad. The domestic program fell under the oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…

“Because of the nature of the Internet, a lot of US domestic data travels abroad at some point. The NSA decided… that the bulk data they were collecting abroad included pretty much everything they were collecting with the US program, and with the two programs overlapping heavily, they chose to end the one with court oversight.”

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NSA is Still Spying on Your Email, Even After Saying It Had Stopped

When the NSA was caught collecting Americans’ email data in 2013, the agency said it had already shut down the program two years earlier. In reality, it stopped in name only, according to newly disclosed documents.

The NSA’s bulk collection of records about Americans’ emails came to light in 2013 thanks to agency contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden. The feds fessed up to the program, but said it was cancelled in December 2011 for “operational and resource reasons.”

The new information is contained in a report by the NSA’s inspector general that was obtained by the New York Times via the Freedom of Information Act. One passage lists four reasons that the NSA decided to end the email program and purge previously collected data. Three were redacted, but the fourth, uncensored reason said that “other authorities can satisfy certain foreign intelligence requirements” that the bulk email records program “had been designed to meet.”

NSA Headquarters Ft Meade Maryland

According to the Times, the NSA collected bulk email data through two programs which the agency operated simultaneously – one within the United States and a second one abroad. The domestic program fell under the oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and intelligence court, while the foreign-based one largely did not.

Because of the nature of the Internet, a lot of US domestic data travels abroad at some point. The NSA decided, therefore, that the bulk data they were collecting abroad included pretty much everything they were collecting with the US program, and with the two programs overlapping heavily, they chose to end the one with court oversight.

The disclosure comes as another NSA program that collects Americans’ phone records in bulk is set to end this month as dictated by a law enacted in June. A replacement program still will allow the NSA to access data to hunt for terrorism suspects, but the bulk data will remain in the hands of phone companies.

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Source: https://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/sputnik-news-11-21-15-the-nsa-is-still-spying-on-your-email-even-after-saying-it-had-stopped/

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