NSA search engine allows law enforcement to scour data on citizens — RT USA
The United States National Security Agency has built a massive
information sharing system intended to allow intelligence community
analysts from across the US government access hundreds of billions of
records detailing the lives of people the world over.
This “Google-like” search engine, according to journalist Ryan
Gallagher at The Intercept, was developed by the NSA as
early as 2007, but was only made publicly available on Monday
this week thanks to classified documents disclosed to the news
site by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
According to the leaked documents and Gallagher's own reporting,
the ICREACH search engine created by the NSA lets analysts from
nearly two-dozen other government agencies, including the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Agency, among
others, share an array of sensitive details collected by the US
intelligence community and its partners concerning not just
foreign terror suspects, but “millions of records on American
citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing,”
Gallagher wrote.
