(3 pages) NSA memo on "new contact-chaining procedures to allow better, faster analysis" of foreign intelligence targets.
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(1 page) An NSA Section 702 rule change expanding NSA targeting/surveillance authorities.
(1 page) An annual report from the Attorney General to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Senate Judiciary Committee, and House Judiciary Committee concerning requests for access to business records under Section 215
(141 pages) NSA training materials relating to signals intelligence collection activities involving Executive Order 12333, 1892 DOD Procedures Governing the Activities of DOD Intelligence Components affecting US persons, and NSA/Central Security Service (CSS) Policy 1-23
(7 pages) Introduction to 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(14 pages) Module 1 of 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(12 pages) Module 2 of 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(17 pages) Module 3 of 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(17 pages) Module 4 of 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(10 pages) Module 5 of 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(12 pages) Module 6 of 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(30 pages) Module 6 of 2011 NSA Course Materials regarding the agency
(2 pages) A memo from the NSA to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about cell site location information
(15 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(4 pages) Excerpts from slides describing spying against the Italian Embassy in Washington DC.
(2 pages) A letter from the DOJ
(19 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(4 pages) Briefing notes on NSA operational plans to conduct surveillance during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits in Canada.
(2 pages) Ask Zelda! introductory column indentifying the author as having served for approximately 20 years as "a first-line and mid-level Agency supervisor."
(4 pages) Slides from a GCHQ presentation on intercepting mobile phone data from phone applications
(19 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(4 pages) Document describing how the NSA and GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps that transmit users' private information across the internet
(14 pages) NSA presentation describing information the agency can extract from smartphone traffic.
(19 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(15 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(2 pages) NSA slides describing operation "Shotgiant," the agency's codename for its efforts to break into Huawei networks.
(11 pages) NSA document describing at least five variants of the QUANTUM hacking method being used at Menwith Hill, GCHQ's eavesdropping base
(12 pages) Slides from a 2010 spy conference detailing the cyber operations used by JTRIG, including sexual
(2 pages) An annual report from the Attorney General to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Senate Judiciary Committee, and House Judiciary Committee concerning requests for access to business records under Section 215
(6 pages) A letter from the DOJ
(7 pages) A DOJ report to the House Intelligence Committee describing the government's bulk collection program under Section 215.
(2 pages) Describes how NSA analysts continue to provide policymakers with "unique, timely, and valuable insights into key countries' preparations and goals for the conference
(1 page) Email from GCHQ to NSA suggesting Microsoft was targeted by NSA program accessing Google and Yahoo traffic.
(7 pages) Supplemental Opinion and Order of the FISC reiterating Court ordered restrictions on NSA
(27 pages) Classified declaration of Dennis C. Blair disclosing information regarding the government
(80 pages) Classified declaration of Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander disclosing information regarding the government
(7 pages) An NSA Joint Statement Before the House Closed Hearing on Patriot Act Reauthorization by Michael Leiter, Director of National Counterterrorism Center and [Redacted], Associate Deputy Director for Counterterrorism providing information relating to the NSA
(5 pages) In response to the Government
(1 page) NSA document containing an internal interview with an agency official, discussing the NSA's cooperative relationship with its surveillance partners.
(2 pages) An NSA memo to notify the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence of the agency
(2 pages) Cover letter submitting the Government
(19 pages) Order of the FISC apprvoing the Government's request for authorization to collect bulk telephony metadata under section 501 of FISA.
(15 pages) An NSA presentation regarding NSA
(110 pages) Report of the Government describing the compliance issues uncovered during NSA
(18 pages) Guide laying out secrecy restrictions of various aspects of FISA-approved spying programs.
(131 pages) 2009 NSA course materials for NSA personnel with access to bulk telephony and electronic communication metadata acquired pursuant to Sections 501 and 402 of FISA
(9 pages) FISC document describing the NSA's minimization procedures under Section 702 of FISA (the FISA Amendments Act).
(9 pages) FISC document describing the NSA's targeting procedures under Section 702 of FISA (the FISA Amendments Act).
(6 pages) A FISC order approving the government
(1 page) A cover letter from the DOJ
(5 pages) A memo from the NSA to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) on the status of its ongoing review of metadata collection programs under Section 501 and 402 of FISA
(46 pages) NSA's end-to-end review of it's implementation of the FISC's authorization under Section 215.
(8 pages) In response to the Government
(15 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(3 pages) A government memo to the FISC providing preliminary notice of a compliance incident related to the NSA
(4 pages) An NSA memo to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and House Permanent Selection Committee on Intelligence providing a status report about the ongoing end-to-end review of the NSA
(6 pages) A memo from the NSA to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) on the status of its ongoing review of
(28 pages) Classified declaration of Dennis C. Blair disclosing information regarding the government
(57 pages) Classified declaration of Deborah A. Bonanni disclosing information regarding the government
(51 pages) A 2009 NSA IG Report reviewing President Bush's post-9/11 surveillance programs.
(11 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(2 pages) Cover letter submitting several FISC opinions and Government filings relating to the Government
(20 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(20 pages) In light of the compliance incidents identified and reported by the Government, the FISC ordered NSA to seek Court approval to query the telephony metadata on a case-by-case basis, except where necessary to protect against an imminent threat to human life
(2 pages) An NSA memo of understanding and guidelines governing FISA Business Records access and queries privileges related to data collected through the bulk telephony metadata program under Section 215
(18 pages) Memorandum of the Government providing the FISC with notice of additional compliance incidents identified during NSA
(4 pages) An NSA memo to notify the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of compliance incidents identified under an ongoing end-to-end review of bulk telephony metadata collection under Section 215
(121 pages) Memorandum of the Government providing additional information relating to a compliance incident and describing additional oversight mechanisms deployed following identification of this compliance incident.
(5 pages) Order of the FISC directing the Government to provide additional information regarding its identification and notification that NSA had improperly queried the bulk telephony metadata by using an automated
(37 pages) NSA guide laying out secrecy restrictions for various aspects of data collection programs run outside rules set by FISA
(3 pages) An annual report from the Attorney General to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Senate Judiciary Committee, and House Judiciary Committee concerning requests for access to business records under Section 215
(13 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(5 pages) Opinion of the FISC concluding that the production of bulk telephony metadata records pursuant to Section 501 of FISA is not inconsistent with Sections 2702 and 2703 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
(4 pages) GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 stating that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases
(48 pages) Attorney General guidelines establishing the framework for the FBI
(17 pages) An NSA memo providing guidance on policy as to the applicable legal standards for querying metadata pursuant to Sections 501 and 402 of FISA
(13 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(13 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(12 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(32 pages) An NSA training slide describing the purpose and scope of the Xkeyscore Program.
(12 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(14 pages) NSA presentation about the Texas Cryptologic Center.
(53 pages) Product catalog from which other NSA employees can order technologies from the ANT division for tapping targets' data.
(8 pages) An annual report from the Attorney General to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Senate Judiciary Committee, and House Judiciary Committee concerning requests for access to business records under Section 215
(16 pages) A memo from the NSA to the DOD seeking approval of a proposed amendment to procedures governing the NSA's metadata analysis.
(11 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(11 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(4 pages) Amendment of Order BR 07-10 from the FISC For Purposes of Querying the Metadata Archive.
(59 pages) Classified declaration of Lieutenant General Keith B. disclosing information regarding the government
(28 pages) Declaration of Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander disclosing information regarding the government
(4 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(11 pages) Order of the FISC approving the Government
(28 pages) NSA presentation for Requirements and Tasking Analysts (analysts responsible for infiltrating computers with the help of the NSA's QUANTUM methods).
(4 pages) An NSA document describing how analysts should explain their targeting decisions under the FISA Amendments Act.
(39 pages) A 2007 NSA web-based training presentation on its bulk telephony metadata program pursuant to Section 501 of FISA
(3 pages) A 2007 NSA competency test for NSA analysts on legal and compliance issues concerning queries of bulk telephony metadata acquired pursuant to Section 501 of FISA
(18 pages) A 2007 NSA PowerPoint presentation for NSA personnel with access to bulk telephony metadata acquired pursuant to Section 501 of FISA
(4 pages) Memo detailing UK-U.S. deal allowing NSA to store data of UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing.
(8 pages) An annual report from the Attorney General to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Senate Judiciary Committee, and House Judiciary Committee concerning requests for access to business records under Section 215