This undated NSA slide provides the locations of FORNSAT sites run by the agency and its Five Eyes partners worldwide: see the Der Spiegel article The NSA in Germany: Snowden’s Documents Available for Download, 18 June 2014.

This undated GCHQ document reporting on the activities of its installation at Bude in Cornwall, describes the infiltration of three German satellite comnunications providers, Stellar, Cetel and IABG. The document includes server details, network graphs, customer login details and the personal details of network engineers: see the Intercept article New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project […]

This draft report from 2009 sheds light on the legal reasoning behind the FISA Court’s 2007 Large Content order, which allowed warrantless wiretapping to continue: see the New York Times article How a Court Secretly Evolved, Extending U.S. Spies’ Reach, 12 March 2014.

This classification guide from 2009 describes different elements of the Bush-era warrantless wiretapping programme. In particular, the guide casts light on the FISA Court’s permissive “Large Content” orders of January 2007. The revision of these expansive court orders in April that year led to the formulation of the August 2007 Protect America Act: see the […]