Posted on 08/26/2014 8:31:04 PM PDT by Nachum
Authored by Ryan Gallagher, originally posted at The Intercept,
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies. Planning documents for ICREACH, as the search engine is called, cite the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration as key participants.
ICREACH contains information on the private communications of foreigners and, it appears, millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing. Details about its existence are contained in the archive of materials provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Earlier revelations sourced to the Snowden documents have exposed a multitude of NSA programs for collecting large volumes of communications. The NSA has acknowledged that it shares some of its collected data with domestic agencies like the FBI, but details about the method and scope of its sharing have remained shrouded in secrecy.
ICREACH has been accessible to more than 1,000 analysts at 23 U.S. government agencies that perform intelligence work, according to a 2010 memo. A planning document from 2007 lists the DEA, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency as core members. Information shared through ICREACH can be used to track people’s movements, map out their networks of associates, help predict future actions, and potentially reveal religious affiliations or political beliefs.
The creation of ICREACH represented a landmark moment in the history of classified U.S. government surveillance, according to the NSA documents.
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Documentation File for the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka “Barry Soetoro” a former Foreign Student from Indonesia, and still a legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
They will be reading this post and categorizing it and i'd bet the farm they even already know my name and where I live. I don't care, come and get me #uckers!
Big daddy is never wrong. Who cares, the IRS inquisition has got their pay checks backed up with islamist and welfarist protected class to political PR boot.
They got their a$$ covered... so to speak.
FYI
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