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Establishing NSA
President Truman establishes NSA to the Armed Forces which was created on May 20, 1949 so that they can try to crack the Japanese and German communication codes during world war 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency -
Director Michael Hayden Statement on Surveying Citizens
Hayden states that information is not retained by NSA and that they can only target communications of US residents after the federal court suspects that individual might be "an agent of foreign power." He also stated that they can't target a person who is oversea without approval from the attorney general who would have a reason to believe that he or she is a foreign spy. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/ -
NSA Going Beyond Limits
NSA has been intercepting phone calls and text messages of American citizens and this went beyond the legal limits that the government has made for NSA. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/16nsa.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all -
NSA have thousands of violations of Americans
NSA has thousands violations against Americans privacy, and there's a secret court that has no power so they can't stop them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year-audit-finds/2013/08/15/3310e554-05ca-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html?utm_term=.d1b4ff6df2d6 -
Tracking Cellphones
According to this article NSA is tracking everyone that has a cell phone because of the breadcrumbs that are within it. Those breadcrumbs can reveal how wealthy we are, where we live, who we're friends with, and almost any information in bulk. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/new-documents-show-how-the-nsa-infers-relationships-based-on-mobile-location-data/?utm_term=.a6afc31dedfd -
NSA can record foreign phone calls
The NSA built a surveillance system that can record a whole phone call that a foreign country has made and they can review it even after a month it took place. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-reaches-into-the-past-to-retrieve-replay-phone-calls/2014/03/18/226d2646-ade9-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html?utm_term=.9d68ee5fb5fc -
Innocent Targets of NSA
The administrators that keep the computer networks in order has made them targets of NSA just because they're doing their job. The NSA has tracked down private email and Facebook accounts of the administrators. https://theintercept.com/2014/03/20/inside-nsa-secret-efforts-hunt-hack-system-administrators/ -
Court Authorized NSA to 193 Countries for Surveillance
The NSA has been allowed to spy on all countries but the US has an agreement with four countries (Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) to not spy on each other but, the article indicate that NSA is spying on anyone they want including the four countries the US has agreements with. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/court-gave-nsa-broad-leeway-in-surveillance-documents-show/2014/06/30/32b872ec-fae4-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html?utm_term=.214a9cf91646 -
NSA Spying on our own Country
NSA is spying on our own citizens in our Country and is operating around the rules on that are in place by our government to manage spying activity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/court-gave-nsa-broad-leeway-in-surveillance-documents-show/2014/06/30/32b872ec-fae4-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html?utm_term=.214a9cf91646 -
NSA secrecy
NSA kept the post- 9/11 surveillance a secret, which made it difficult for other agencies to see what NSA really prevented and who they were watching. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/us/politics/value-of-nsa-warrantless-spying-is-doubted-in-declassified-reports.html