Decades later, the memorandum that acted as the agency's charter remained secret. Reflect on that for a moment. In a representative democracy, the executive branch secretly created a new federal agency and vested it with extraordinary powers. Even the document setting forth those powers was suppressed. As a result of this overwhelming passion for secrecy, few persons outside the inner circle of America's intelligence community have recognized the gradual shift in power and importance from the Central Intelligence Agency to the NSA.
Thus, it was to a surprised Congress that the Senate Intelligence Committee reported: "By the budget yardstick, the most influential individual in the intelligence community is the Director of the NSA, who, including his new role as Chief of the Central Security Service, manages the largest single program contained in the national intelligence budget.
Again, this is remarkable: in a representative democracy with a bicameral legislature, Congress was surprised to find that a federal intelligence agency they'd scarcely heard of was bigger and more powerful than one that they'd created. Even after post-Vietnam cutbacks, the NSA counted 68, staffers in , making it bigger than all other intelligence agencies combined. The information collected from cellular companies not only include the metadata collected but also the content of phone calls under the Prism program.
The information collection was first allowed by the Bush administration and then renewed under the Obama administration in under the Patriot Act. Snowden was indicted on two charges under the Espionage Act of on June 21, , but he sought asylum in Russia.
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When do I vote? When are polls open? Soviet codes would not be successfully deciphered again until the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Despite drawbacks, by the NSA had achieved success with deciphering foreign communications in numerous theatres.
The Agency remained relatively unknown to the American public. The Director of the NSA testified that the Agency had monitored the phone calls of anti-war Americans to discover connections to suspected foreign criminals.
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