[IP] NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Date: January 1, 2006 11:56:26 AM EST
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Subject: NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance


NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance

Fruit of Eavesdropping Was Processed and Cross-Checked With Databases

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 1, 2006; Page A08

Information captured by the National Security Agency's secret
eavesdropping on communications between the United States and
overseas has been passed on to other government agencies, which
cross-check the information with tips and information collected in
other databases, current and former administration officials said.

The NSA has turned such information over to the Defense Intelligence
Agency (DIA) and to other government entities, said three current and
former senior administration officials, although it could not be
determined which agencies received what types of information.
Information from intercepts -- which typically includes records of
telephone or e-mail communications -- would be made available by
request to agencies that are allowed to have it, including the FBI,
DIA, CIA and Department of Homeland Security, one former official
said.

At least one of those organizations, the DIA, has used NSA
information as the basis for carrying out surveillance of people in
the country suspected of posing a threat, according to two sources. A
DIA spokesman said the agency does not conduct such domestic
surveillance but would not comment further. Spokesmen for the FBI,
the CIA and the director of national intelligence, John D.
Negroponte, declined to comment on the use of NSA data.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/31/ 
AR2005123100808.html



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