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File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program (nytimes.com)
schwit1 writes: Newly disclosed documents show that the NSA had found a way to create the functional equivalent of programs that had been shut down. The shift has permitted the agency to continue analyzing social links revealed by Americans' email patterns, but without collecting the data in bulk from American telecommunications companies — and with less oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The disclosure comes as a sister program that collects Americans' phone records in bulk is set to end this month. Under a law enacted in June, known as the USA Freedom Act, the program will be replaced with a system in which the NSA can still gain access to the data to hunt for associates of terrorism suspects, but the bulk logs will stay in the hands of phone companies.
The newly disclosed information about the email records program is contained in a report by the NSA's inspector general that was obtained through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. One passage lists four reasons the NSA decided to end the email program and purge previously collected data. Three were redacted, but the fourth was uncensored. It said that "other authorities can satisfy certain foreign intelligence requirements" that the bulk email records program "had been designed to meet."
The disclosure comes as a sister program that collects Americans' phone records in bulk is set to end this month. Under a law enacted in June, known as the USA Freedom Act, the program will be replaced with a system in which the NSA can still gain access to the data to hunt for associates of terrorism suspects, but the bulk logs will stay in the hands of phone companies.
The newly disclosed information about the email records program is contained in a report by the NSA's inspector general that was obtained through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. One passage lists four reasons the NSA decided to end the email program and purge previously collected data. Three were redacted, but the fourth was uncensored. It said that "other authorities can satisfy certain foreign intelligence requirements" that the bulk email records program "had been designed to meet."
They figured out how to replace the programs before they were shut down. That's why the programs were shut down in the first place.......
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
You speak like the executive is one group. When I listen to Obama, he says the talking points he has been told. So so called 'anonymous' records, which I know are only technically anonymous, and trivial to de-anonymize, he claims as anonymous.
In the UK, we REJECTED Snoopers charter, and GCHQ then went on and did the mass surveillance anyway. They should NOT be spying on UK citizens or politicians, but claim they can and that's its legal. They haven't explained how its legal. Currently Theresa May, (appointed under this Stasi regime) is still trying to make it legal.
Its like the spooks are running the show, and these puppets are chosen by them.
Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn has a detailed GCHQ file (the Wilson doctrine has been disavoded so they can spy on politicians), and the Army head made it clear people shouldn't vote for him (Army chief went on TV in full dress uniform and warned people against voting for Labour claiming it would weaken UK). There are no doubt plenty of GCHQ people who feel the same and have the secret info on Corbyn. That is how bad it is getting now. They answer to NSA, but Parliament gets a fake cover story.
So you say 'executive', but really its a few managers in NSA and GCHQ that run the show, and THAT IS ONE STEP AWAY from a dictatorship.
The judiicary are supposed to protect us from these deluded power crazed idiots, but they are all but bypassed. FISA court judges FISA cases based on what its been told, not any independant policing of the spooks. That was how General Alexander was able to turn "spy on terrorists", into "spy on everyone" with seemingly the court being unaware. Well unaware till they read the news about all the giant datacenters being built.
The content's even worse.
found a way to create the functional equivalent of programs that had been shut down
In English a program is a software application, which makes the statement above sound seriously fucking impressive.
Turns out the article is talking about programmes, at which point it's merely just another aspect of the Police States of America.
Find me a person who is not a hypocrite, and I'll show you a scoundrel.
Being a hypocrite merely means you have standards, and want to be better than you currently are.
Have you ever looked back at some code you've written, and said, "I should have done better on that code?" Now if you tell other people to not make the same mistake you did, suddenly you are a hypocrite. If "hypocrite" is the worst thing anyone can ever call you, then you've done a good job.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."