The NSA feeds your secret data to other agencies

Phony "Secret Court" warrants covering hundreds of millions of Americans are the cover for the DEA and Pentagon to spy on all of us.

The New York Times reports that the many other Federal agencies have been tapping into the National Security Agency’s surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say.

Agencies working to curb drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and even copyright infringement complain that their attempts to exploit the security agency’s vast resources have been turned down (for now) because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority.

But other Federal Intelligence units that have been given access to the NSA's unconstitutional data collection include:

• The Drug Enforcement Administration
• Secret Service
• Pentagon
• Department of Homeland Security

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Other agencies have been given access to the security agency’s surveillance tools for "particular" cases, intelligence officials said to the New York Times.

At the Homeland Security Department, officials have repeatedly sought to use the security agency’s Internet and telephone databases and other resources.

In fact, a change made in 2008 in an executive order by GOP President George Bush governing intelligence was intended to make it easier for the security agency to share surveillance information with other agencies if it was considered “relevant” to their own investigations.

It has often been left to the national intelligence director’s office to referee the frequent disputes over how and when the security agency’s spy tools can be used. The director’s office declined to comment for this article.
      

Typically, the agencies request that the N.S.A. target individuals or groups for surveillance, search its databases for information about them, or share raw intelligence.

In a statement, the security agency said that it “works closely with all intelligence community partners, and embeds liaison officers and other personnel at those agencies for the express purpose of ensuring N.S.A. is meeting their requirements and providing support to their missions.”
       

The security agency’s spy tools are attractive to other agencies for many reasons. Unlike traditional, narrowly tailored search warrants, those granted by the intelligence court often allow searches through records and data that are vast in scope.

 

The standard of evidence needed to acquire them may be lower than in other courts, and the government may not be required to disclose for years, if ever, that someone was the focus of secret surveillance operations.

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