Their main goal is to intercept, analyze, and store any sort of communication signals, whether overseas or within the United States, to gain foreign intelligence and counterintelligence and provide as much security to the nation as possible (NSA, 2011). ... For example, one of the documents details the removal of important information from a letter to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice. ... The article proceeds to describe a case where the Foreign Intelligence Court, which has authority over the many actions the agency takes, was unaware of a sur...

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Not only can this keep us safe, but we could give other allies the information we obtained to thwart threats abroad within the borders of our allies, which could foster the creation of a global intelligence community. ... Indeed, the NSA works "tirelessly " with other federal provisioned initiatives, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) in order to protect our borders, while investigating and prosecuting any threats to the general welfare we've all grown accustomed to. ... A U.S Intell...

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This is possible for the NSA because they have their interpretation of the Patriot Act and the 4th Amendment, which was allowed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. ... The NSA, on a request from the FBI, indiscriminately collected the telephone records of millions of US Verizon customers – regardless of whether they were suspected of wrongdoing -- under atop secret court order granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. ...

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After he passed away, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference helped for Congress to come up with the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. ... The Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein called drones "the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans". ...

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