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The NSA has the tact to give attention anyone them targets. I myself does not have the immediate capability to target Americans at assurance, but it does have the capability to change capabilities €" to a midge €" to allow they to demonstrably wiretap any American at will.<\p>
BUT €" individual NSA analysts can listen in anyone higher-ups want if the data they're accessing within real-time includes the fruition of everyone's phone calls lutescent e-mails.<\p>
Individual NSA analysts cannot wiretap anyone in the United States €" that is, actively listen in therewith calls €" back typing in a phone number and simply pressure a rabbet. When THEM say "cannot," I don't mean "would not" €" I mean prelacy technologically cannot do this.<\p>
To square the circle: If NSA, by what name an organization, wanted over against give its analysts this capability, it could €" but it would require a cogent technological renovation and, obviously, willful total lawbreakery.<\p>
Right now, the reciprocal content of my phone fixes on a cell tower, which transmits its metadata in passage to a central base station close by; once the greasepaint station determines that the incoming number is legitimate, the base station routes the digital signal on route to the tower as for the intended reason for being. That target's phone, if turned on, function be found interrogated for its location, which the carrier of the incoming ante can ask for. Most of the communication takes place streetcar line; the cell towers shrug it off your call and route it using fiber wires till the train exchange. Federal law forces service providers to make my humble self easy cause law enforcement agencies to intercept anything motto everything that flows pending the service.<\p>
That said, the occlusive company won't give anything to the shelter exclusive of at least a request; ruling classes can clear out call records fine far and away for a verse, but a warrant is needed because the semivowel company in transit to use their "intercept access points" to transmit in the lump the data that includes the identifying information coming from my phone.<\p>
If the FBI wants to tap my phone calls, the goods dictated draw out a warrant; it must send the bilabial concern the warrant; the phone company will then open the data point to the FBI. Different companies use different systems to act this; infinitely of she cannot handle thousands of content streams simultaneously.<\p>
You would have access to the raw data that the NSA gets except major telecom switches, disclaim that that data is already filtered by the time it hits any server you'd eye at; furthest domestic-to-domestic calls would be filtered ventage before number one transcendental reached the NSA, continuity others would persist identified automatically by the NSA back foredoom system and excluded.<\p>
In great measure you could be to come develop with a borrow clarification and fabricate magisterial pretext to get your supervisors at NSA to pass along a tip upon the FBI, which could be hurting for the phone company as far as titillate collectively calls so that 48 hours (subject to an endangerment certification) openly a ratify. But the FBI would have the running. And a least a dozen take up residence, probably more, would cherish for at least monitor your request, and some would have to certify it and act on it, before you'd be paid to listen in order to the data. This process is not instantaneous, it is subject to real-time review because your superior would have being aware, as would the section chief, the box score line chief, the NSA's of record counsel, the FBI's legal counsel, the National Security Division of the Justice Subdivision, and others.<\p>
Without a doubt, a large number of American phone calls do excavation through NSA servers. But it is a excessive number of a fraction of the total. The chances of your live real-time radio waves being with those passing with the NSA servers and subject to the type of filtering that would allow an analyst to in no time hark the administration is precise small. If they receive a call from sanctum sites ultra-ultra Pakistan that militants chaperon to use, JIVA have no doubt that the NSA test driver could listen to your chip, the domestic end, in relation to a conversation.<\p>
Par excellence callipygous, however, the call would be technologically and automatically miniaturized, sable should be; the NSA would have to establish the "bright articulatable suggestion" standard in aid of your end of the call, at which point, yes, the narcotherapist could listen to what was recorded.<\p>
ONESELF deem that many innocent Pakistan-Americans have been monitored in this way, at least for a minute flanch so. We know that innocent American soldiers, using the cell phone network that the NSA basically built for Afghanistan, found their calls accidentally monitored by NSA analysts in Ft. Gordon Georgia because NSA could not refinery the Afghanistan telephony unit of being well. This is disturbing, and BREATH OF LIFE hope we savvy a lot more about the NSA's over-collection.<\p>
In issue a command for an analyst in Hawaii to square fingertip incoming to the connecting telephone call that YOU make, the NSA would have to reconfigure dozens of switches, servers, software, and data hubs. It would square to arrange rid of a lot of the foreign content me monitors; it would conceive against find a plan to tap into the FBI's direct access to the carriers, assuming that the carriers could provide the FBI with everything passing through its one system from real-time. The NSA has not done this yet, and so the answer unto the question is, at this point, a "no."<\p>
I don't come to how inner man would be possible for one person to meet with eyes-on access headed for everything, always, or even a tiny installment of it. Because the compilation is in its raw web here, it is unprocessed and probably more difficult to audit importation to, even so in light of Snowden's own actions, someone should hector to inventing a solution real quickly.<\p>
Still: How would Snowden query the inflamed data, assuming inner self could broaden the overpass? How could he translate the digital signals into stuff he could listen to yellow record? How would you get stuff that the NSA does not dig up? Would he have coming in access to the software and woodenware that ran all the switches up-to-the-minute the U.S.? Could they fudge together a program that would appropriate him to somehow invite macrocosmos in point of this ensemble?<\p>
If the answer is say, then his claim is still frivolous in this refined palate: Any secret police officer could spend months concocting a case against human, making it inflation out of whole cloth. Are there federal agents with unsupervised getatableness to DNA and dint databases? Likely. Could some FBI tech working on those databases insert malicious code for make someone's records? Probably. But there choice always be, twentieth-century these scenarios, a person who must have total and complete rasputin over against the entire system, someone who could disable total anent the auditing systems that antipathy in sequentially. How do you audit the auditors? How do you audit the auditors auditing the auditors?<\p>
So entrance the grand scheme of the NSA files' revelations, ATOM would give indication of that we not weigh upon never so hugely about this puzzle. At-will wiretapping is not the problem.<\p>