They are saving us from ... What was that again? NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

Steve Allen would claim to have written 10,000, to 14,000 songs.
Name two of them.

The NSA documents assert that by 2008, 300 terrorists had been captured using intelligence from XKeyscore. 

Name two of them. 


Be afraid, be very afraid.

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' | World news | theguardian.com

Wednesday 31 July 2013  

Series: Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty

• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data
• NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches
• Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history
• NSA's XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations

A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.

The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisasurveillance court oversight.

The files shed light on one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardian on June 10.

"I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email".

US officials vehemently denied this specific claim

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