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DNI/AG 702(g) Certification 2010-A
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Release Date:
2014-06-30
Document Date:
2010-07-15
This 2010 certification from the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General asserts that procedures are in place to ensure foreign intelligence gathering stays within the boundaries of the law by targeting people “who are reasonably believed to be outside the United States.” The breadth of the authority is, however, very wide, allowing surveillance […]
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CERTIFICATION OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL PURSUANT TO SUBSECTION 702(g) OF TfififFORpGN
INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978, AS ...
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Applications Made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court During Calendar Year 2012
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Release Date:
2014-05-13
This extract, part of an undated disclosure given to congress each year as required under the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, shows that the FISA Court only denied one application made by the US government over the course of 2012: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.
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Applications Made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court During Calendar
Year 2012 (section 107 of the Act, 50 U. S.C. § 1807)
During calendar year 2012, the Governmen...
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Black Budget entry on Computer Network Operations GENIE project
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Release Date:
2015-01-17
Document Date:
2012-02-18
This extract from the US Intelligence Community’s Congressional Budget Justification for the Fiscal Year 2013 (the “Black Budget”) provides the budget for GENIE the project “which underpins NSA/CSS’ Computer Network Operations (CNO) Endpoint capabilities conducted by the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) Group: see the Der Spiegel article The Digital Arms Race: NSA Preps America for […]
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(U) COMPUTER NETWORK OPERATIONS
(U) GENIE
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FY 20111 Actual FY 2012 Enacted FY 2013 Request FY 2012 - FY 2013
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2013 Black Budget: Cryptanalysis & Exploitation services
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Release Date:
2015-03-10
Document Date:
2013-01-01
This extract from the US intelligence community’s 2013 Congressional Budget Justification shows expenditure on the Analysis of Target Systems project, which aims to defeat the encryption in commercial software and hardware: see the Intercept article iSpy: The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets, 10 March 2015.
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(U) CRYPTANALYSIS & EXPLOITATION SERVICES
(U) ANALYSIS OF TARGET SYSTEMS
This Exhibit Is SECRET//NOFORN
FY 20111 Actual FY 2012 Enacted FY 2013 Request...
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Quadrennial Intelligence Community Review Final Report, April 2009
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Release Date:
2014-09-05
Document Date:
2009-04-01
This April 2009 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence considers the challenges the US intelligence community may face by 2025 and suggests that the competitive advantage of US firms may need to be supported by espionage: see the Intercept article The U.S. Government’s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations, 5 […]
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Sharing Communications Metadata Across the US Intelligence Community
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Release Date:
2014-08-25
Document Date:
2007-05-15
This ODNI briefing from 15 May 2007 describes the rationale for ICREACH and the scale of metadata sharing that was envisioned: see the Intercept article The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google, 25 August 2014.
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Black Budget entry on Foreign Partner Access
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Release Date:
2014-06-18
This 4-page excerpt from the 2013 Black Budget describes the two elements of NSA’s Foreign Partner Access operations – RAMPART-A and WINSTSTOP – together with their funding: see the Intercept article How Secret Partners Expand NSA’s Surveillance Dragnet, 18 June 2014.
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(U) SPECIAL SOURCE ACCESS
(U) FOREIGN PARTNER ACCESS
This Exhibit is SECRET//NOFORN
FY 20111 Actual FY 2012 Enacted FY 2013 Request FY 2012 - FY 201...
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Black Budget – Human Language Technology Research
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Release Date:
2015-05-05
Document Date:
2013-01-01
This extract from the 2013 Intelligence Community Budget Justification (“the Black Budget”) outlines the budget for speech recognition technologies: see the Intercept article The Computers are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text, 5 May 2015.
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(U) RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
(U) HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY RESEARC...
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Black Budget – Israel
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Release Date:
2013-08-29
Document Date:
2012-02-01
These three short extracts from the 2013 Intelligence Community Budget Justification (“the Black Budget”) shows that Israel was seen as a counter-intelligence target: see the Intercept article Netanyahu’s Spying Denials Contradicted by Secret NSA Documents, 25 March 2015.
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(U> Penetrate Hostile Foreign Intelligence Services
(S//NF) The ability to detect and engage foreign intelligence services and non state actors that target U.S.
interests is...
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Exhibit F
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Release Date:
2014-06-30
Document Date:
2010-07-16
This document lists the 193 governments, intragovernmental organisations and other entities which the NSA was granted the legal authority to intercept communications “about” for foreign intelligence purposes in August 2010: see the Washington Post article Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, 30 June 2014.
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Afghanistan (AFG/AF), Albania (ALB/AL), Algeria (DZA/DZ), Andorra (AND/AD), Angola (AGO/AO), Antigua and Barbuda (ATG/AG), Argentina (ARG/AR), Armenia (ARM/AM), Austria (AUT/AT), Azerbaijan (AZE/AZ), Bahamas (BHS/BS), Bangladesh (BGD/BD), Barbados (BRB/BB), Belarus (BLR/BY), Belgium (BEL/BE), Belize (BLZ/BZ), Benin (BEN/BJ), Bhutan (BTN/BT), Bolivia (BOL/BO), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH/BA), Botswana (BWA/BW), Brazil (BRA/BR), Bulgaria (BGR/BG), Burkina Faso (BFA/BF), Burundi (BDI/BI), Cambodia (KHM/KH), Cameroon (CMR/CM), Central African Republic (CAF/CF), Chad (TCD/TD), Chile (CHL/CL), China (CHN/CN), Colombia (COL/CO), Comoros (COM/KM), Congo (COD/CD), Costa Rica (CRI/CR), Croatia (HRV/HR), Cuba (CUB/CU), Cyprus (CYP/CY), Czech Republic (CZE/CZ), Denmark (DNK/DK), Djibouti (DJI/DJ), Dominica (DMA/DM), Dominican Republic (DOM/DO), Ecuador (ECU/EC), Egypt (EGY/EG), El Salvador (SLV/SV), Equatorial Guinea (GNQ/GQ), Eritrea (ERI/ER), Estonia (EST/EE), Ethiopia (ETH/ET), Fiji (FJI/FJ), Finland (FIN/FI), France (FRA/FR), Gabon (GAB/GA), Gambia (GMB/GM), Georgia (GEO/GE), Germany (DEU/DE), Ghana (GHA/GH), Greece (GRC/GR), Grenada (GRD/GD), Guatemala (GTM/GT), Guinea (GIN/GN), Guinea-Bissau (GNB/GW), Guyana (GUY/GY), Haiti (HTI/HT), Vatican (VAT/VA), Honduras (HND/HN), Hungary (HUN/HU), Iceland (ISL/IS), India (IND/IN), Indonesia (IDN/ID), Iran (IRN/IR), Iraq (IRQ/IQ), Ireland (IRL/IE), Israel (ISR/IL), Italy (ITA/IT), Jamaica (JAM/JM), Japan (JPN/JP), Jordan (JOR/JO), Kazakhstan (KAZ/KZ), Kenya (KEN/KE), Kiribati (KIR/KI), Korea (KOR/KR), Kuwait (KWT/KW), Kyrgyzstan (KGZ/KG), Latvia (LVA/LV), Lebanon (LBN/LB), Lesotho (LSO/LS), Liberia (LBR/LR), Libya (LBY/LY), Liechtenstein (LIE/LI), Lithuania (LTU/LT), Luxembourg (LUX/LU), Macedonia (MKD/MK), Madagascar (MDG/MG), Malawi (MWI/MW), Malaysia (MYS/MY), Maldives (MDV/MV), Mali (MLI/ML), Malta (MLT/MT), Marshall Islands (MHL/MH), Mauritania (MRT/MR), Mauritius (MUS/MU), Mexico (MEX/MX), Micronesia (FSM/FM), Moldova (MDA/MD), Monaco (MCO/MC), Mongolia (MNG/MN), Montenegro (MNE/ME), Morocco (MAR/MA), Mozambique (MOZ/MZ), Myanmar (MMR/MM), Namibia (NAM/NA), Nauru (NRU/NR), Nepal (NPL/NP), Netherlands (NLD/NL), Nicaragua (NIC/NI), Niger (NER/NE), Nigeria (NGA/NG), Norway (NOR/NO), Oman (OMN/OM), Pakistan (PAK/PK), Palau (PLW/PW), Panama (PAN/PA), Papua New Guinea (PNG/PG), Paraguay (PRY/PY), Peru (PER/PE), Philippines (PHL/PH), Poland (POL/PL), Portugal (PRT/PT), Qatar (QAT/QA), Romania (ROU/RO), Russia (RUS/RU), Rwanda (RWA/RW), Saint Kitts and Nevis (KNA/KN), Saint Lucia (LCA/LC), Samoa (WSM/WS), San Marino (SMR/SM), Sao Tome and Principe (STP/ST), Senegal (SEN/SN), Serbia (SRB/RS), Seychelles (SYC/SC), Sierra Leone (SLE/SL), Singapore (SGP/SG), Slovakia (SVK/SK), Slovenia (SVN/SI), Somalia (SOM/SO), South Africa (ZAF/ZA), Spain (ESP/ES), Sri Lanka (LKA/LK), Sudan (SDN/SD), Suriname (SUR/SR), Swaziland (SWZ/SZ), Sweden (SWE/SE), Switzerland (CHE/CH), Taiwan (TWN/TW), Tajikistan (TJK/TJ), Tanzania (TZA/TZ), Thailand (THA/TH), Timor-Leste (TLS/TL), Togo (TGO/TG), Tonga (TON/TO), Tunisia (TUN/TN), Turkey (TUR/TR), Turkmenistan (TKM/TM), Tuvalu (TUV/TV), Uganda (UGA/UG), Ukraine (UKR/UA), United States (USA/US), Uruguay (URY/UY), Uzbekistan (UZB/UZ), Vanuatu (VUT/VU), Venezuela (VEN/VE), Vietnam (VNM/VN), Western Sahara (ESH/EH), Yemen (YEM/YE), Zambia (ZMB/ZM), Zimbabwe (ZWE/ZW)
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Black Budget, p. 262
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Release Date:
2015-05-05
This extract from the 2013 Intelligence Community Budget Justification (“the Black Budget”) outlines the budget for speech recognition technologies: see the Intercept article The Computers are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text, 5 May 2015.
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Black Budget – Bin Laden extracts
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Release Date:
2015-05-18
Document Date:
2014-02-10
These extracts from the 2013 Congressional Budget Justification (the “Black Budget”) describe US intelligence activity around the raid on Osama bin Laden’s Abbotabat compound: see the Intercept article What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, 18 May 2015.
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2013 Congressional Budget Justification
Document
Release Date:
2014-02-10
An extract from this document confirms that the NSA played a role in the assassination of US citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan: see the Intercept article The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program, 10 February 2014.
(U) The Death of Anwar Nasser Aulaqi
(TS//NF) Anwar Nasser Aulaqi, a dual U.S./Yemeni citizen, regional
commander for AQAP, and well-known extremist lecturer who preached at two
U.S. mosques ...
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An “additional target country” for MYSTIC
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Release Date:
2014-03-18
Document Date:
2013-01-01
This extract from the 2013 Congressional Budget Justification for the National Intelligence Program (the Black Budget) describes the spread of MYSTIC’s “complete access” to other target counries: see the Washington Post article NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls, 18 March 2014.
(U) Project Description
(S//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY) The Special Source Operations (SSO) Project provides management oversight
and logistical support to the Special Source Access programs. These ...
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Penetrating Hard Targets and Owning The Net
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Release Date:
2014-01-02
This excerpt from the Black Budget explains how quantum computing development efforts fit in with NSA projects that aim to break strong encryption (Penetrating Hard Targets) and facilitate offensive operations to compromise target networks (Owning The Net or OTN): see the Washington Post article NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types […]
Excerpts from the "black budget," Volume 2, "Combined Cryptologic Program":
(U) RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (U) PENETRATING
HARD TARGETS
(U) Project Description
(S//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY) The...
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ICREACH in the Black Budget
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Release Date:
2014-08-25
These extracts from the Congressional Budget Justification for the financial year 2013 show that increased funding was sought for ICREACH: see the Intercept article The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google, 25 August 2014.
[S//REL TO USA. FVEY) Provide 1C analysts with access to a wider set of shareable data through the
ICREACH Application. ICREACH allows IC analysts the ability to perform more comprehensive analys...