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[ NNSquad ] WashPost: In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are 

In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the
foreigners who are

(WashPost): http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html

     The surveillance files highlight a policy dilemma that has been aired
     only abstractly in public. There are discoveries of considerable
     intelligence value in the intercepted messages and collateral harm to
     privacy on a scale that the Obama administration has not been willing
     to address.  Among the most valuable contents, which The Post will not
     describe in detail, to avoid interfering with ongoing operations, are
     fresh revelations about a secret overseas nuclear project,
     double-dealing by an ostensible ally, a military calamity that befell
     an unfriendly power, and the identities of aggressive intruders into
     U.S. computer networks ... Months of tracking communications across
     more than 50 alias accounts, the files show, led directly to the 2011
     capture in Abbottabad of Muhammad Tahir Shahzad, a Pakistan-based bomb
     builder, and Umar Patek, a suspect in a 2002 terrorist bombing on the
     Indonesian island of Bali. At the request of CIA officials, The Post
     is withholding other examples that officials said would compromise
     ongoing operations.

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Executive summary: Complicated.

--Lauren--
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