"Under certain circumstances, it may be advisable and allowable to target second party persons and second party communications systems unilaterally when it is in the best interests of the US and necessary for US national security," says the directive, which was classified as "NF" for No Foreign and is titled Collection, Processing and Dissemination of Allied Communications.
"Therefore," the draft memo continues, "under certain circumstances, it may be advisable and allowable to target second party persons and second party communications systems unilaterally, when it is in the best interests of the US and necessary for US national security".
The counteroffer was delivered to North Korea through a Red Cross hot line, the first restored among several cross-border communications lines North Korea had unilaterally cut off recently in anger over joint South Korean-American military exercises in March.
But the Prism program renders that consent unnecessary, as it allows the agency to directly and unilaterally seize the communications off the companies' servers.
The documents make clear the NSA has been able to obtain unilaterally both stored communications as well as real-time collection of raw data for the last six years, without the knowledge of users, who would assume their correspondence was private.
"It's definitely not appropriate for the president to act unilaterally," said Erich Pratt, director of communications for the Gun Owners of America.
When Mr Botin unilaterally fired the bank's BCH-friendly head of communications last week, Mr Amusategui complained to the Spanish central bank.
People dusted off ham radios and fax machines.Snap crackle popThe more complex communications networks become, the harder it is to disable them swiftly, remotely or unilaterally.
Marc Kasowitz has already filed a legal complaint against Comey, because he: "unilaterally and surreptitiously made unauthorized disclosures to the press of privileged communications with the President".
"It's like unilaterally disarming".
