There was a time when the U.S. National Security Agency is so secretive, government officials dare not speak its name in public places. NSA, joke, standing for "no such agency."
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Measures have been taken under pressure from President Obama tried to calm the storm of public disclosure of former NSA contractor Edward Snowdon monitoring bodies and the British side to scoop up more of the Internet and mobile data than ever before known.
U.S. National Security Agency's move out of the shadows, in order to show its legitimate business, and repair detection, their mistakes, but not everyone is convinced that this is a fundamental shift towards more open intelligence agencies.
Some steps towards opening is unprecedented.
The Government first announced - previously marked top secret - from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, never publicly aired its decision by the NSA's electronic eavesdropping and communications for comments.
This is from some of the Justice Department lawyers and some of the NSA and CIA officials concerned about the amount listed unedited material published in three FISA court opinion, despite resistance, U.S. sources told Reuters reporters.
In the end, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper how much material was released previously secret court decisions were taken.
, DNI spokesman Sean Turner said: "The existence or not, we need to be more transparent, it's just to identify a problem, we can safely go far without the whole community differences."
Obama and other officials said that the National Security Agency's monitoring program is legitimate, has been approved by the Congress and the FISA court, designed to detect and destroy the terrorist plot.
The FISA court that the National Security Agency may inadvertently collected many Americans a year from 2008 to 2011 of 56,000 e-mails may have violated the "Constitution" made adjustments before.
Some analysts said that intelligence agencies may not enter a whole new world of public information display.
Washington, Brookings Institution Governance Research Director Darrell - West said: "I would not call it a seismic shift for greater transparency in the federal government put these documents under duress," think tank.
"The problem is, they just keep releasing material bit by bit, this scandal will never disappear."
Recently, the U.S. intelligence agency's efforts seem more open top-level officials earlier opinion, the authenticity afterwards questioned.
Clapper requires a congressional hearing in March whether the NSA any type of data collected millions of Americans, he replied: "No, sir."
Snowdon revelation was published in June, the Clapper told NBC, he was at the hearing in response to "the most authentic, or at least dishonest way."
May, the U.S. National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander told Reuters reporters, said the agency has no interest in reading e-mail of U.S. citizens, and quipped: "The great irony is that we are not the only spying on the American people. "
Government officials are reluctant to say, Snowdon disclosure prompted greater openness, but analysts say it does have an effect.
"People now have the knowledge of what the NSA amount means that we can not simply pretend it does not exist, which is the Snowdon change things," the Center for Strategic and International Studies senior researcher James Lewis said.
In order to make the disclosure to the public's appetite for NSA program, more open, he said. "There is a transparency and accountability linkages and political acceptance."
Jamie Erjia Fil, ACLU deputy legal director, said the organization was pleased recently released documents, and hopes that the Government will release in the coming weeks more.
However, it should not be seen as a huge shift by management transparency, Jeff said, his team is also suing the federal government use of UAVs for more information.
"In fact, on the same day, the president promised more transparency on the issue of monitoring, the CIA submitted a brief in our 'targeted killings' case, that it could not release the UAV program legal memoranda, not release the number of civilian casualties, and for that matter does not even recognize the institution had played any role in targeted killings, "Jeff said. "



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