NSA does drug busts, industrial espionage, and political work for many other TLAs. For instance we know some details about the MINARET project which was not th

NSA does drug busts, industrial espionage, and political work for many other TLAs. For instance we know some details about the MINARET project which was not the full extent of their spying that: "Operating between 1967 and 1973, over 5,925 foreigners and 1,690 organizations and US citizens were included on the Project MINARET watch lists. NSA Director, Lew Allen, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1975 that the NSA had issued over 3,900 reports on the watch-listed Americans." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET One imagines that with the growth of technology and the growth of the NSAs budget from that time they are able to distractedly increase those numbers.