"Project MINARET was a sister project to Project SHAMROCK operated by the National Security Agency (NSA), which, after intercepting electronic communications th

"Project MINARET was a sister project to Project SHAMROCK operated by the National Security Agency (NSA), which, after intercepting electronic communications that contained the names of predesignated US citizens, passed them to other government law enforcement and intelligence organizations." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET The NSA has a history of sharing intelligence with LE, to state that the NSA is not a LE agency is extremely misleading, if not an outright lie. Not only did the NSA do this in the past but the Snowden revelations show that they continue to do this.