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By Jennifer Stisa Granick (https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jennifer-granick) and Christopher Jon Sprigman

(https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=37891)

It seems that every day brings a new revelation about the scope of the NSA’s heretofore secret warrantless mass surveillance programs. And as we learn more, the picture becomes increasingly alarming. Last week we discovered (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805) that the NSA shares information with a division of the Drug Enforcement Agency called the Special Operations Division (SOD). The DEA uses the information in drug investigations (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/08/us-dea-irs-idUSBRE9761AZ20130808). But it also gives NSA data out to other agencies – in particular, the Internal Revenue Service (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805), which, as you might imagine, is always looking for information on tax cheats.


The Obama Administration repeatedly has assured us that the NSA does not collect the private information of ordinary Americans. Those statements simply are not true. We now know that the agency regularly intercepts and inspects Americans’ phone calls, emails, and other communications, and it shares this information with other federal agencies that use it to investigate drug trafficking and tax evasion. Worse, DEA and IRS agents are told to lie to judges and defense attorneys about their use of NSA data, and about the very existence of the SOD, and to make up stories about how these investigations started so that no one will know information is coming from the NSA’s top secret surveillance programs.


(http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/06/watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos/)
(http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/06/watch-top-u-s-intelligence-officials-repeatedly-deny-nsa-spying-on-americans-over-the-last-year-videos/)

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(http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/31/nsa-director-heckled-at-conference-as-he-asks-for-security-communitys-understanding/) NSA Director Heckled At Conference As He Asks For Security Community's Understanding

(http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/31/nsa-director-heckled-at-conference-as-he-asks-for-security-communitys-understanding/) http://b-i.forbesimg.com/assets/images/avatars/agreenberg_40.jpg Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff (http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/)

“Now, wait a minute,” you might be saying. “How does a foreign intelligence agency which supposedly is looking for terrorists and only targets non-U.S. persons get ahold of information useful in IRS investigations of American tax cheats?” To answer that question, let’s review this week’s revelations.