Reply #10: What other programs are the NSA geeks runnning? = "illegal domestic data-trawling" [View All]

[L. Coyote]

What other programs are the NSA geeks runnning?
By fazzaz31
http://warrenreports.tpmcafe.com/blog/fazzaz31/2007/may/18/what_other_programs_are_the_nsa_geeks_runnning

Pundits worldwide are wondering just what other programs the NSA might have running ... we need to know a little about how the NSA works ....

.... NSA is chartered by the National Security Act of 1947 ... to conduct foreign military sigint (signal intelligence) only, but may assist civilian law enforcement officials thus ....

.....Broadly speaking, NSA has two jobs: 1) intercept foreign military communications, and 2) decipher code. .... FISA was later specifically crafted to allow them to listen domestically when the origination point was either domestic or foreign, as long as there was some foreign node involved, but only with a warrant, eg, a FISA warrant.......

.........In the past, NSA was almost completely inactive domestically, which is why they recently had to build those switching rooms in AT&T's San Francisco and St Louis facilities.........the only reason for a tap in St Louis is to monitor US interstate phone and e-mail traffic, and that means illegal domestic data-trawling, no matter how they parse it.

.........LONG ARTICLE..............