The funeral of Pope John Paul II will be a "security nightmare" as the current and four former presidents (and their wives), the secretary of state, and numerous other U.S. officials will be in attendance. NSA will be providing signals intelligence threat warning support to U.S. security officials, to Italian SIGINT partners, and is engaging SIGINT partners to provide threat warnings as well.

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.