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[ PRIVACY Forum ] WashPost: In NSA-intercepted data,
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In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the
foreigners who are
(WashPost): http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html
The surveillance files highlight a policy dilemma that has been aired
only abstractly in public. There are discoveries of considerable
intelligence value in the intercepted messages and collateral harm to
privacy on a scale that the Obama administration has not been willing
to address. Among the most valuable contents, which The Post will not
describe in detail, to avoid interfering with ongoing operations, are
fresh revelations about a secret overseas nuclear project,
double-dealing by an ostensible ally, a military calamity that befell
an unfriendly power, and the identities of aggressive intruders into
U.S. computer networks ... Months of tracking communications across
more than 50 alias accounts, the files show, led directly to the 2011
capture in Abbottabad of Muhammad Tahir Shahzad, a Pakistan-based bomb
builder, and Umar Patek, a suspect in a 2002 terrorist bombing on the
Indonesian island of Bali. At the request of CIA officials, The Post
is withholding other examples that officials said would compromise
ongoing operations.
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Executive summary: Complicated.
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