Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. Compiles
Source: New York TImes
Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. Compiles
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Published: August 3, 2013 113 Comments
WASHINGTON The National Security Agencys dominant role as the nations spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its 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 agencys vast resources have often been turned down because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority, current and former government officials say.
Intelligence officials say they have been careful to limit the use of the security agencys troves of data and eavesdropping spyware for fear they could be misused in ways that violate Americans privacy rights.
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Smaller intelligence units within the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security have sometimes been given access to the security agencys surveillance tools for particular cases, intelligence officials say.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/us/other-agencies-clamor-for-data-nsa-compiles.html?hp&_r=1
kpete
(71,980 posts)The article still makes it sounds like the NSA is reluctant to share its knowledge of everything with everybody, but they do sometimes and everyone haz a sad because they don't do it all the time.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/08/keeping-us-safe.html
dkf
(37,305 posts)The unlawful tracking of every American regardless of probable cause is on our doorstep.
RC
(25,592 posts)Hello! The mere gathering of that data is a
Land of the Free, my ass. More like a police state, being run by several want-to-be dictators, in competition for the top spot.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)You have none.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)This data can be used for anything... including blackmail.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Oh the NSA irony: "misused in ways that violate Americans privacy rights"
polynomial
(750 posts)Alan Grayson seems to be very politically savvy compared to his contemporaries. Watching him this after noon on you tube because my mainstream media is turned off. Yes, no satellite and no cable, does it feel nice. Just have to stay away from hate radio. However, Congressman Grayson talked about different topics including the NSA spying.
Straight away when ask about the spying Congressman Grayson said The spying must be stopped. Without hesitation, no convoluted circular inverted argument normally given by most in the Congress or Senate persons. What jumps out to me is a simple reference to the rule of law.
Sometimes the law is broken but the reason is a good one; here anyone could sense that Grayson did defend Snowden but did say Snowden broke the law. Hear me out to think about a huge, huge contrast in opinions that genuinely expose our media as totally dysfunctional. Plus Senator Schumer was also in the mix describing how the Russians gave Snowden a year of political asylum describing how it was devastating by nature to make a decision like that.
We the People need to understand that huge chunk of international Law accountability are completely disregarded by our media in this debate. Also affecting immigration, trade, and simple things like The International Criminal Court the ICC established into force July 1, 2002.
Individuals who commit any of the crimes under the statute after that date are liable for prosecution by the court. This is the first-ever permanent, treaty-based, international criminal court established to promote the rule of law and ensure that the gravest international crimes do not go unpunished, International Criminal Court, 2005.
Well boys and girls these United States of America the so called leader of the world, the super duper too big to fail, political screw up, and the best country to be a corporate tyrant, obviously with self-evidence determined by the great decider George W. Bush not to be a country that participates in just legal actions that support crimes against humanity, and war crimes, or, genocide.
Of course America may very well have broken tons of copy right laws but the most serious is the phony Iraq war is an outrage. It is surprising that over a hundred counties that are participating do not arrest our American persons around the world. Or, worse America should be at world war three handed off by George Bush to Obama. Perhaps America is really at war with the world but the mainstream media, the congress, the senate, just will not admit it.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Cuz the Feds have a solution.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)Was the NY Times story a pre-emptive plant to deny the Reuters one?