U.S. National Security Agency may have inadvertently collected up to 56,000 e-mails of Americans between 2008 and 2011, each year a program, a secret U.S. Court then said it may have violated U.S. law and the Constitution , according to documents released Wednesday.
A confidential document, the U.S. intelligence agency announced the unprecedented efforts of the White House, smooth uproar, the secret government surveillance program concerning the extent of the former contractor Edward Snowdon inspiration.
U.S. officials say the documents show that intelligence collection plan, accidentally ran into the privacy of Americans were found and fixed.
But they seem to have raised new questions about the operation and the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropping secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), through its supervision.
"The court is troubled by the government's revelation about the National Security Agency's online transactions, acquisitions, marking the third time in less than three instances in which the Government has disclosed a material misrepresentation of the scope of the main collection procedures," Judge John Bates wrote a surveillance court to decrypt the file.
More specifically Bates said that in October 2011 ruling, the court concluded that the result of improper collection of tens of thousands of e-mail process is "in some ways, the lack of legal and constitutional reasons. "
Newly declassified documents can be found in www.icontherecord.tumblr.com
'Is not a shocking audacity. "
The e-mail that the problem is only a small piece scoop up by the U.S. National Security Agency's electronic communications around the world. It collects an annual target of about 2.5 million e-mail communications, in a separate program, has captured and kept millions of Americans phone records.
According to the document, only about 9 percent of the e-mail - or less than 250,000 - collected from the "upstream" sources familiar with intelligence operations officials say it is part of the telecommunications company's cable connections.
The rest are from the U.S. National Security Agency from the acquisition of Internet service providers to the point where they are sent or received. Each year, about 56,000 e-mail question is from the "upstream" sources.
Intelligence officials speaking on condition of anonymity, defended their practices.
"This is not a greedy institution trying to pry Americans a shocking audacity, this is a technical problem, resulting in a relatively small number of inadvertent collection of U.S. person communication," a senior intelligence official told reporters.
In the new decryption FISA court's ruling, the court in a footnote estimated by the U.S. National Security Agency, according to the data provided, between 2008 and 2011, the agency may inadvertently collect as many as 56,000 Americans each year through e-mail newsletter .
U.S. intelligence officials told reporters that the domestic e-mail collection targets under the program is designed for foreign terror suspects email.
The program does not collect e-mail, because marking of the word, such as "bomb." Instead, it needs to put in those specific address, or traveling to or from a specific address, an official said.
One of the ways U.S. citizens can get caught in the net e-mail because the program to capture people's mail account, receive or send e-mail, rather than a targeted e-mail screenshot shows a page, he said.
"Due to technical reasons, the U.S. National Security Agency can not afford ...... still not be able to break those down into its individual components," the official said.
"Self-regulation"
According to officials and government published a court document, the U.S. National Security Agency decided to "clear" and found it was inadvertently collected material.
Intelligence official said: "When you see these files as a whole, you will get a truly effective self-regulation, the National Security Agency in a sense,." "Any time you have a large complex technical operations, involving thousands of people, there will be mistakes, there will be mistakes."
History ultra-secret National Security Agency recently took a rare public discussion of classification monitoring program after the disclosure of Snowdon, on the spot to the Obama administration's attempt, and explained that U.S. intelligence agencies did not deliberately spying on Americans and foreign allies.
A few members of Congress, most notably, the Democratic Party member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden began to complain about a month ago, the U.S. National Security Agency wiretapping of Americans over, there is no transparent way communication.
Wyden said in a statement, decryption, the Court's ruling was "long overdue" and made it clear that the law is written, "law-abiding Americans are insufficient to adequately protect civil liberties and privacy, and should be reformed . "
Intelligence officials and decrypt files explained, NSA inadvertently collected information on Americans without lawful authority main one is the method used to collect e-mail addresses with foreigners target suspects sometimes automatically into the institutions to approve times irrelevant, and purely domestic mail. That should not be collected without a warrant.
Since the discovery of inadvertent collection procedures, intelligence officials said, the National Security Agency has tightened its procedures to get rid of data discovery and collection of Americans without proper authorization.



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