N.S.A.'s Pinwale Examines Large Volumes of US E-mail Messages Without Court Warrants --E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress 17 Jun 2009 The National Security Agency is facing renewed scrutiny over the extent of its domestic surveillance program, with critics in Congress saying its recent intercepts of the private telephone calls and e-mail messages of Americans are broader than previously acknowledged, current and former officials said. A former N.S.A. analyst who, in a series of interviews, described being trained in 2005 for a program [Pinwale] in which the agency routinely examined large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants. Two intelligence officials confirmed that the program was still in operation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html --- Breaking the Taboo on Israel's Spying Efforts on the United States By Christopher Ketcham, AlterNet. March 10, 2009. Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S., yet public discussion about it is almost nil http://www.alternet.org/world/130891/breaking_the_taboo_on_israel%27s_spying_efforts_on_the_united_states/?page=2 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
