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You're thinking of the CIA. The NSA's job is to spy on citizens.
by eikenberry 3y ago
You're thinking of the CIA. The NSA's job is to spy on citizens.
- hollerith 3y ago>The NSA's job is to spy on [US] citizens They're not supposed to (according to for example the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978). If a US citizen needs to be spied on by the US government, the FBI is supposed to do that.
- rokkitmensch 3y agoWhat the spook box says and what's inside are two completely different things, by design.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> If a US citizen needs to be spied on by the US government, the FBI is supposed to do that. Semi-autonomous collections systems generally aren't capable of determining citizenship. Once the data is at rest, much of it is made available to a surprisingly large number of federal and state agencies - and even local agencies via fusion centers, etc. The system is built for dissemination. Within that, some checks on citizenship could be possible for some data. But even then, once a foreign person is part of the data/comms transaction, all the related data is available - citizenship of the other participants is no barrier.