Internet surveillance by the NSA

by TechFreak Fri 09 Aug 2013, 7:57 am

Procedures used by the National Security Agency for targeting non-United States persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information pursuant to section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act of 1978, as amended:

Cloud: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/727943-exhibit-a.html
PDF: http://documentcloud.org/documents/727943/exhibit-a.pdf

Contributed by Edward Snowden through Charles Savage, The New York Times

by TechFreak Fri 09 Aug 2013, 8:06 am

Apparently no espionage tool that Congress gives the National Security Agency is big enough or intrusive enough to satisfy the agency’s inexhaustible appetite for delving into the communications of Americans. Time and again, the N.S.A. has pushed past the limits that lawmakers thought they had imposed to prevent it from invading basic privacy, as guaranteed by the Constitution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/opinion/breaking-through-limits-on-spying.html

by TechFreak Fri 09 Aug 2013, 8:16 am

Statement from http://lavabit.com on their website
http://silentcircle.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/to-our-customers

Edward Snowden's address: edsnowden@lavabit.com

by TechFreak Sat 10 Aug 2013, 8:38 am

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/09/remarks-president-press-conference

by TechFreak Sat 10 Aug 2013, 8:44 am

The Obama administration on Friday released two documents, one from the Justice Department and the other from the National Security Agency, related to the legal basis for surveillance efforts:

http://documentcloud.org/documents/750223/obama-administrations-legal-rationale-for.pdf

by TechFreak Wed 21 Aug 2013, 10:11 am

WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans' Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say.

The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these people say.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324108204579022874091732470.html

by TechFreak Wed 21 Aug 2013, 10:12 am

Today's report in The Wall Street Journal reveals that the National Security Agency's spying tools extend deep into the domestic U.S. telecommunications infrastructure, giving the agency a surveillance structure with the ability to cover the majority of Internet traffic in the country, according to current and former U.S. officials and other people familiar with the system.

The information here is based on interviews with current and former intelligence and government officials, as well as people familiar with the companies' systems.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324108204579025222244858490.html

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