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Message Subject New NSA Spying Info on Project Code Named ‘Stellar Wind’: Collected Data Akin to a ‘Real-Time Map of Your Brain’
Poster Handle Daniel Higdon
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NSA's Stellar Wind Program Was Almost Completely Useless, Hidden From FISA Court By NSA And FBI

A huge report (747 pages) on the NSA's Stellar Wind program has been turned over to Charlie Savage of the New York Times after a successful FOIA lawsuit. Stellar Wind has its basis in an order issued by George W. Bush shortly after the 9/11 attacks. Not an executive order, per se, but Bush basically telling the NSA that it was OK to start collecting email and phone metadata, as well as warrantlessly tap international calls into and out of the United States.

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F.B.I. agents were asked to scrutinize phone numbers deemed suspicious because of information from the program. But the agents were not told why the numbers had been deemed suspicious, only “not to use the information in legal or judicial proceedings.”

That made some agents uncomfortable, and it was not clear how such mysterious leads fit into their rules for investigations.


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The documents don't restore any faith in the "oversight" of the NSA's activities. Instead, it shows two presidents acting in secrecy to permit the surveillance of American citizens and involved agencies covering it up with parallel construction, intense secrecy, manipulation of oversight bodies and several very questionable legal theories.

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