Transit authority (surveillance term)
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Transit authority is a term used by the NSA to describe the agency's legal authority to collect all communications that transit the United States without a warrant, provided that both endpoints are foreign.[1] The agency gained this power from Executive Order 12333.
References[]
- ^ Savage, Charlie (November 3, 2015). Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency (Kindle ed.). Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316286572.
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