Sunday, 12. October 2008
Topic: SECURITY - on October 12, 2008 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
The coverage of the recent NSA intercept stories has some serious deficiencies. - Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA's Wiretapping of Americans Abroad
That's not the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP), and not related to foreign intelligence collection programs in that were in place in the United States. That's the NSA working in a foreign military operations theater, and is vastly different. These intercepts were happening in realtime and were focused on an area of military operations.
When working in the dynamic environment of an operations theater, it's difficult to make distinctions about what traffic should be monitored and when. That is of course not to say that US Persons should continue to be collected on after their status is known, even under difficult circumstances.
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