If you’ve sent an email to someone overseas recently, there’s a decent chance that the U.S. government sifted through it, according to The New York Times.The Times reported on Thursday that the National Security Agency is temporarily copying and then searching through the content of “apparently most” emails and other text-based communications that cross the U.S. border. Officials have previously acknowledged that the NSA is intercepting communications between Americans and foreigners targeted for surveillance overseas. But what the Times has now reported goes further than that — potentially all communications crossing the border are being examined for information linked to targeted foreigners.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=201557