As the NSA's troves of ostensibly foreign emails and Americans' international communications come under heavy scrutiny, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board dealt the NSA a victory on Tuesday night by calling the information reaped "valuable".
Among them are indications that the NSA possesses the authority to search through databases of foreign emails, phone calls and associated data for Americans' names and identifying information, something Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, calls a "backdoor search" capability.
Methods: (foreign leaders, email spying, acceptability, civil liberties).
We followed up on the duodenoscope superbug litigation saga, focusing on duties to translate foreign language emails in discovery.
As my colleague James Ball of the Guardian revealed, GCHQ routinely hacks British and foreign journalists' emails and regards reporters producing "exposés either for profit or what they deem to be of the public interest" as a threat to the state only just behind terrorists.
Colin Powell told Hillary Clinton, his successor as secretary of state, that he used a personal computer to email foreign leaders "without going through State Department servers", a seven-year-old email exchange reveals.
India is planning to impose a ban on the use of foreign cloud-based email services to send official communications, before the end of the year.
If two Americans emailing simply mentioned one of the NSA's 100,000 foreign targets, their emails could be swept up per this program.
Among those who communicated with Papadopoulos were senior campaign figures such as strategist Stephen K. Bannon and adviser Michael Flynn, who corresponded with him about his efforts to broker ties between Trump and top foreign officials, the emails show.
Even as her advisers fretted about the perception that she was too cozy with wealthy interests, they agreed to let lobbyists bundle checks for her campaign, including those representing some foreign governments, the emails show.
