Category Archives: FISA

NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data

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President Obama has changed the rules regarding raw intelligence, allowing the NSA to share raw data with the US’s other 16 intelligence agencies. The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone… Continue reading NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data→

NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data

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President Obama has changed the rules regarding raw intelligence, allowing the NSA to share raw data with the US’s other 16 intelligence agencies. The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone… Continue reading NSA Given More Ability to Share Raw Intelligence Data→

Intelligence Oversight and How It Can Fail

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Former NSA attorneys John DeLong and Susan Hennessay have written a fascinating article describing a particular incident of oversight failure inside the NSA. Technically, the story hinges on a definitional difference between the NSA and the FISA court meaning of the word "archived." (For the record, I would have defaulted to the NSA’s interpretation, which feels more accurate technically.) But… Continue reading Intelligence Oversight and How It Can Fail→

Yahoo Scanned Everyone’s E-mails for the NSA

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News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don’t believe those carefully worded statements about what they have and haven’t done. We do know that the NSA uses bribery, coercion, threat, legal compulsion, and outright theft to get what they want. We just don’t know which one they… Continue reading Yahoo Scanned Everyone’s E-mails for the NSA→