US NSA Gives Israel Raw Intelligence on US Citizens (Chamberlain)

[unhappycamper]

http://www.juancole.com/2013/09/intelligence-citizens-chamberlain.html

US NSA Gives Israel Raw Intelligence on US Citizens (Chamberlain)
Posted on 09/12/2013 by Juan Cole

The National Security Agency openly shares unfiltered intelligence files with the Israeli government, according to a classified document leaked to the Guardian newspaper by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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According to the document, raw files shared with Israel come from the NSA's collection of "signals intelligence" or Sigint—which includes both electronic and telephonic metadata swept up in any number of NSA surveillance programs.

That data, according to the Guardian, includes, but is not limited to, "unevaluated and unminimized transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content." Much of this unfiltered data, the Guardian suggests, contains detailed information belonging to unsuspecting U.S. citizens whose communications have been caught up in the NSA's extensive surveillance dragnet.

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When questioned by the Guardian, the Obama administration refused to discuss how many other countries the NSA shares raw data with or whether the FISA court, designed to act as a check on NSA overreach, approved the agreement.

[GoneFishin]

1. With no legally binding limitations on Israel's use of the data.

Which appears to mean they can share it with AIPAC to help them "lobby" congress (wink, wink).