Generally, when you're awarded an SI clearance, you get the TK one at the same time. He therefore had a window into the sources and methods of targets of signals intelligence, a very large, multi-billion dollar enterprise.
Because the U. This makes sense, because most germane, intelligence-bearing communications are digital. His documents reveal how the NSA has built a worldwide network of passive and active implants that steal information from target computers or networks, and then send the data back, through special covert channels, to the NSA, for further analysis or exploitation. This feeds the SIGINT beast; new "selectors," or email addresses and telephone numbers and product identifiers are identified, and then further tasked as necessary.
His documents have also sketched out the growth in the use of bulk data collection from fiber optic nodes, where entire streams of the internet are diverted and key-word searched for tasked selectors. We know this, based on the testimony of NSA officials, and because we have not seen any documents with other, more exotic markings released into the wild.
The absence of evidence is not I have also asked several folks with access to the Snowden archives whether my hypothesis about the documents that are as of yet unpublished is correct, and in the elliptical way they communicate these things, I am told that, yes, I am correct.
If you assume the intelligence compromise happened the moment Snowden walked out of NSS Kunia with the documents, then it was, at best, a partial compromise of one of several major prongs of the intelligence apparatus.
This is an observation, not a judgment. It was something I had wondered, so I decided to check it out. For one thing, Snowden did not have access to any specific ECIs Exceptionally Controlled Information compartments that protect specific sources of information, including the identities of companies that partner with the NSA.
The larger ones can be inferred, but the details of their cooperation, along with the details of hundreds of other relationships, are ECI-controlled. Since the sources he did reveal seem pretty sensitive, it's worth knowing that there is an entire category of SIGINT sources and methods that is even more sensitive, or potentially controversial.
That is, his documents show how the NSA collects stuff. But in order to read the stuff the NSA collects, you need a separate set of internal clearances. Without it, you can learn all about how and why the NSA collects metadata and then analyzes it, but you yourself cannot access the raw data that's collected. It is, I am reasonably certain, the group of sensors, underground electronic nets, laser systems, stations and satellite technologies that allow the Navy to collect classic SIGINT and electronic intelligence on submarines, ship movements, adversary counter-measures, and a host of other phenomenon.
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