And, to be fair, a presentation dating from 2008 doesn't guarantee that such activities are ongoing.Edward Snowden has once again provided fodder for the surveillance fears of American citizens: New leaked documents show that the National Security Agency's (NSA's) XKeyscore search engine hoovers up vast amounts of private communications information, to the tune of 700,000 voice, fax and video files every day.Īccording to a report in The Intercept, XKeyscore doesn’t bother with intercepting last-mile telephone calls and the like. Intelligence officials are set to testify to the Senate judiciary committee, which may shed light on the whole matter. Based on official's denials, it would appear that either the NSA isn't being totally upfront about what it could do, or there's a serious case of semantic deniability going on here. XKeyscore's own training materials claim otherwise. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do," Rogers said in June. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, said that Snowden was lying about having real-time email access. "He's lying. Of course, government officials have been fighting the NSA allegations from the beginning. The NSA doesn't have the capability to monitor emails without a court order? They clearly do have the ability to do so with a court order, so how does that change? It's not like FISA judges give NSA analysts one-time access codes to surveillance systems for every court order, especially when analysts have the legal ability to surveill anyone who's not American without a court order. A slide from the XKeyscore presentation published by the Guardian.Īs Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic argues, that claim makes no sense.
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