[cryptome] Re: De-Classification DNI FBI FISA Hops NSA 215 702 etc. / terminology
- From: "Al Mac Wow" <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:02:46 -0500
Relevant abbreviations and other government geek terminology etc. when
reading about US Gov surveillance programs.
Most of these should be familiar to most of us, but sometimes something
trips us up.
ACLU = American Civil Liberties Union
DHS = US Department of Homeland Security
DNI = US Director of National Intelligence
DoJ = US Department of Justice
FAA = FISA Amendments Act[1]
FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigation
FISA = Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FISC = Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
GOV = short government
Hops defined by example:
* Let's suppose BILL in the USA becomes a person of interest, because
BILL received an e-mail from AL-BULLY in Russia, inquiring how to ship some
weapons into the USA, and AL-BULLY has come to the attention of US
intelligence, thanks to AL-BULLY shipping weapons to some AL-QAEDA affiliate
in the Middle East. This e-mail from AL-BULLY to BILL is discovered thanks
to the 702 surveillance program.
* So NSA looks up BILL's phone # in the 215 meta data base, to find
out ALL the people who have called BILL or been called by BILL in the past
5-7 years.[2] On average, this might be 40 people, unless BILL happens to
have a job as a Pizza delivery guy. Those 40 some people are hop # 1.
* One of those 40 people might be TOM. NSA does with TOM's phone #
the same thing they just did with BILL, and also with each of the other 40
some people. This next layer is hop # 2.
* One of the people who talked with TOM, might be HARRY. NSA does
with HARRY, the same thing they just did with BILL, and all the people BILL
had talked with. This next layer is hop # 3.
* According to public testimony to Congress, NSA does no more than 3
hops, and they have some process for figuring out which of those people
really are an innocent Pizza delivery guy, and which people are suspicious.
That process has not been shared with the general public.
IC = Intelligence Community
ODNI = Office of the Director of National Intelligence
NSA = National Security Agency
215 = a section of the Patriot Act, which the FBI, NSA, and other government
agencies can use, to get secret court orders, from FISC, demanding data,
such as phone logs.
702 = a section of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which NSA and other
government agencies can use, to get secret court orders demanding data, such
as what goes through the Internet.
Al Mac = Alister William Macintyre
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[1] Not to be confused with FAA = Federal Aviation Administration, which
regulates (or tries to regulate) drones over most of NAS = US National Air
Space.
[2] There has been conflicting testimony regarding how long this data is
stored.
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