The NSA reportedly is reading communications between Americans and foreigners abroad, despite its denials. The NSA responded to the allegations by stating its activities are lawful attempts to gather intelligence about foreign powers and their agents, foreign organizations, foreign persons or international terrorists, and not Americans.
It only collects what it is explicitly authorized to collect, the NSA contends. The agency previously has claimed it collected only metadata about communications and did not look at their actual content.
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For NSA, Americans' Emails Are an Open Book
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 9, 2013 05:00 AMThe NSA reportedly is reading communications between Americans and foreigners abroad, despite its denials. The NSA responded to the allegations by stating its activities are lawful attempts to gather intelligence about foreign powers and their agents, foreign organizations, foreign persons or international terrorists, and not Americans.
It only collects what it is explicitly authorized to collect, the NSA contends. The agency previously has claimed it collected only metadata about communications and did not look at their actual content.