REVEALED: The Top Secret Rule That Lets The NSA Use US Data Without A Warrant

Business Insider ^ | June 20, 2013 | Glenn Greenwald

[yoe]

Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information "inadvertently" collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.

The Guardian is publishing in full two documents submitted to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (known as the Fisa court), signed by Attorney General Eric Holder and stamped 29 July 2009. They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target "non-US persons" under its foreign intelligence powers and what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that surveillance.

The documents show that even under authorities governing the collection of foreign intelligence from foreign targets, US communications can still be collected, retained and used.

The procedures cover only part of the NSA's surveillance of domestic US communications.

[yoe]

Caution, consider the source....needs more research...

[Hotlanta Mike]

Transparency? Not...

[Diogenesis]

They apparently did not use ALL the data.
More precisely, they used, and use, the data that helps
the DNC and those in power (by coup d'etat
against the US Constitution).

"Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition"

[SparkyBass]

[Hoodat]

Double-secret probation?

[Carry_Okie]

Already posted from another source.

[bigbob]

The protections in this rule are pathetically weak. For example, they’re allowed to keep anything that is “encoded”.

Suppose I write an email that includes: ATZKI FEIGD YOQKC
They’ll say “That’s a code” and keep it.

Suppose I write an email that includes “John has a long mustache”.
They’ll say “That’s a code” and keep it.

Suppose I write an email that includes: “I’ll meet you at the restaurant at seven”.

What then?

Totally discretionary, total disregard for the privacy of US citizens.

[A.A. Cunningham]

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[Whenifhow]

thanks for that link - never saw that thread before

[Buckeye McFrog]

Suppose I write an email that includes: ATZKI FEIGD YOQKC They’ll say “That’s a code” and keep it.

Gawd, for sure they'll have every text I've ever tried to send.

[Carry_Okie]

It is already on the same Front Page News sidebar. It didn't even require a search to see it. There weren't a lot of posts on the thread nor were any of particular substance.

Therefore...

[hadaclueonce]

Were all little fishes swimming up the same stream.

[bmwcyle]

You forgot about double secret probation.