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C1-030-05 Close Out for "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers without Courts" - Action Memorandum
This document is a piece of correspondence written by an official within the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate and addressed to Ariane Cerlenko of the NSA's Office of General Counsel. It is a response on the accuracy of claims made about NSA…
Interview with a SID "Hacker" -- Part 2: Hacker Culture and Worker Retention
This document is an interview with a hacker employed by the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) Division to perform computer network exploitation (CNE) operations against targets, including Osama Bin Laden. It originally appeared in the Signals…
SID's Goals for this Quarterly
This document is an extract from notes for an internal NSA presentation. It describes key achievements made by the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorare (SID) in 2013. Mention is made of the trilateral agreement existing between the NSA, GCHQ and…
Intelligence Oversight (IO) Quarterly Report - First Calendar Year 2012 (1 January - 31 March 2012)
This document is a report created by the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID)'s Office of Oversight and Compliance. This report evaluates the incidents of "incidents" (described as "collection, dissemination, unauthorized access, and…
"Ask Zelda!" : Watching Every Word in Snitch City
This document is an article from SIDToday, an internal newsletter of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate division. It is a part of the series titled "Ask Zelda", an advice column. This article responds to an enquiry into appropriate levels of…
Op-ed: Leave Bright Pebbles, Not Breadcrumbs, for Those Coming After You
This document is a memo composed by an official within the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. In this memo, the author describes the importance of inter-agency cooperation in sharing intelligence.
ELINT Analysts - Overcome by Overload? Help is Here with IM&S
This document is a memo prepared by the Signals Intelligence Division (SID) of the NSA. It describes the impact of Information Management and Storage (IM&S) systems providing long term access to various repositories of electronic intelligence…
The SIGINT Philosopher: Cognitive Overflow?
This document is a memo prepared by an official in the NSA. It describes the "channel capacity" of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). This capacity refers to the divisions ability to meaningfully analzye the amounts of data that it…
The SIGINT Philosopher: In Praise of Not Knowing
This report was prepared by an official in the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. It criticizes some commonly held philosophical viewpoints within the administration of the NSA.
Legal Compliance and U.S. Persons Minimization Procedures
This document is also known as United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18. It prescribes policies and procedures, and assigns responsibilities to ensure that the NSA's signals intelligence activities are aligned with the U.S. Constitution's 4th…