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Sunday, January 01, 2006

NSA spreads data around

Not really surprising:

Information captured by the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping on communications between the United States and overseas has been passed on to other government agencies, which cross-check the information with tips and information collected in other databases, current and former administration officials said.
The NSA has turned such information over to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to other government entities, said three current and former senior administration officials, although it could not be determined which agencies received what types of information. Information from intercepts -- which typically includes records of telephone or e-mail communications -- would be made available by request to agencies that are allowed to have it, including the FBI, DIA, CIA and Department of Homeland Security, one former official said.


All here. Dunno the ramifications of this; just hadn't seen it reported before.

1 Comments:

  • At 10:16 PM, Blogger mikevotes said…

    One of the ramifications, I would guess is that in this transfer of intel the context and circumstance got lost, so that the handling of it was probably not as careful as the NSA would have been.

    Also, the NSA has no personnel "on the ground," so until the info was transferred out, no actions could be taken on it. But what actions, and what if the intel was from an illegal tap?


    Mike

     

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