President Obama's administration is highly confidential documents, reveals the secret surveillance of Americans phone and email traffic entering leak may open a criminal investigation, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Law enforcement and security officials, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said that institutions often conduct such investigations, including the FBI and the Justice Department, looking forward to a probe into the leakage of British and American newspapers.
Such investigations usually begins after the agency believes that its secrets have been divulged unauthorized file a complaint with the Justice Department.
It is unclear whether the complaint filed on Friday publicity shy National Security Agency, which is most directly involved in the collection trillion by phone and e-mail communications.
However, a U.S. official said that, given the extent of recent leaks and sensitivity, federal law may force officials to investigate the understanding of the situation.
Criminal probe will represent the Obama administration's national security leaks against another turning point. Recently because of the Justice Department investigation, involving AP reporters De Dianhua and Ji Luhe Fox News correspondent search efforts in this regard has been reviewed.
Leaked to the media this week has revealed government activities far beyond any previously admitted domestic surveillance.
Later Wednesday, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported U.S. officials later admitted was an order of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court granted the United States, Verizon Communications Inc. is a subsidiary of a request to the National Security Agency data show that the original telephone call from the United States and the number of figures from the United States for those overseas.
The data does not include the contents of telephone calls or identity of the person.
On Thursday, "The Guardian" and the "Washington Post" published a secret NSA from slide PowerPoint presentation, explain how the agency collected data from a mass e-mail known Internet companies, including Google, Facebook and Apple The next top-secret program called PRISM.
Some companies denied that the National Security Agency and the FBI have "direct access" Post "reported that their central server.
For example, last Friday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) said that his company "is not never been to the United States or any other government direct access to our servers, and any part of the plan . "
"We have never received any government agency requested information or metadata in bulk blanket request or court order, such as one reported, Verizon company received" Zuckerberg said. "If we do that, we will actively seek, we never even heard of PRISM" on Thursday, he said.
U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, condemn leaks, and asserts, news articles contained in PRISM "many mistakes."
WikiLeaks
Participation in "The Guardian" Washington Post "article, reporter-depth reports, WikiLeaks published secret U.S. government document called a Web site.
Post PRISM program prepared jointly by a documentary filmmaker has WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange (Julian Assange) cooperation, Laura Poitras, and last year made a short film, about Bill Binnie, The former NSA employees to become agency reported critic.
Last year, the online magazine "Salon" Guardian "reported that Glenn Greenwald author published a lengthy article, accusing U.S. authorities of harassment Poitras, when she left and re-enter the United States. Greenwald also often write about Assange.
"The Guardian" published story appeared in the same week, the U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning trial in Maryland charged hundreds of leaking confidential documents to WikiLeaks.
Reuters on Friday in an e-mail, Poitras reject the concept of the trial, her story has any effect on time.
"I am fully aware that we live in a political climate of national security report is being used by the Government's target, but I do not think we should fear stop us from reporting these stories," Poitras wrote.
"To show that the timing of NSA prism Story with other events or stories, I am following in any way is totally wrong, any reporter, I have a lot of contacts and multiple stories."
Kris Coratti, the Washington Post, "the spokeswoman said Poitras newspaper published the story of the trial of time to do nothing with Manning, Assange has been arranged or encouraging story, did not play a role.
Greenwald no e-mail to respond to requests for comment. "The Guardian" editor and editor in chief Alan , declined to comment.
 



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