Amy Goodman
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NSA Creates Google-Like Search Engine to Help Other Agencies Access Collected Phone, Email Records
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3:45Now PlayingA new report by The Intercept news site reveals the National Security Agency is secretly providing troves of data to nearly two dozen government agencies using a "Googlelike" search engine. Documents from Edward Snowden provide proof that for years the NSA has made data directly available to domestic law enforcement agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI. The search tool, known as ICReach, contains information on both foreigners and millions of U.S. citizens who have not been accused of wrongdoing. It is designed to share more than 850 billion records that is more than twice the number of stars in the Milky Way. We speak with Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept reporter who broke the story. We also ask Gallagher about his report on how the U.S. military has banned all employees from reading The Intercept and has begun blocking the website on work computers, purportedly because it has published classified material. “That kind of policy in the age of Manning, in the age of Snowden, just is totally archaic, and it doesn’t fit the modern world,” Gallagher says. "You can have a situation where an intelligence analyst in the government with a topsecret security clearance is in a position that they can’t read public news reports."
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