Newly disclosed documents show that the NSA had found a way to continue spying on American citizens email traffic from overseas. The mass collection didnt include the email content, the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorized it to help The War Against Terror (TWAT) The collection of email of Americans on the US soil was stopped in 2011, but the NSA continued to monitor email traffic outside the nations borders. To curb internal law the US intelligence has is used overseas offices to do the collection.”]
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