It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
WITH ONLY DAYS until Donald Trump takes office, the Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorization with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.
The new rules allow employees doing intelligence work for those agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad, Reagan-era executive order that gives the NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad. Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.
The procedures do not alter the rules that apply to the NSA’s collection, retention, or dissemination of information, other than to permit the NSA to disseminate raw SIGINT information that it has already lawfully collected under E.O. 12333 to other authorized IC recipients.
Civil Liberties and Privacy Protections in the Procedures
originally posted by: Phage
The procedures do not alter the rules that apply to the NSA’s collection, retention, or dissemination of information, other than to permit the NSA to disseminate raw SIGINT information that it has already lawfully collected under E.O. 12333 to other authorized IC recipients.
icontherecord.tumblr.com...
Civil Liberties and Privacy Protections in the Procedures
Oh hell, what's the point? You don't want to read the actual document. You just want to believe what someone tells you it says.
originally posted by: Kapusta
WITH ONLY DAYS until Donald Trump takes office, the Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorization with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Oh it gets better .
The new rules allow employees doing intelligence work for those agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad, Reagan-era executive order that gives the NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad. Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.
So apparently this was order to better help prevent things like 9/11 to broaden all data between agency's .
I am skeptical , I am just wondering why Obama did this now .
LINK
originally posted by: ColdWisdom
a reply to: Kettu
How would sharing the private data of American citizens help protect the intelligence agencies from a Trump presidency?
I'm confused.
originally posted by: ColdWisdom
a reply to: Kapusta
Whatever Obama is doing in his final days can be undone by Trump the second he takes office.
Obama's actions are just Washington theater at this point.