30. A 2004 memo entitled "DEA- The 'Other' Warfighter", states that the DEA and NSA "enjoy a vibrant two-way information-sharing relationship."
31. When the DEA acts on information its Special Operations Division receives from the NSA, it cloaks the source of the information through "parallel construction," going through the charade of recreating an imaginary investigation to hide the source of the tip, not only from the defendant, but from the court. This was intended to ensure that no court rules on the legality or scope of how NSA data is used in ordinary investigations.
32. The fruits of NSA surveillance routinely end up in the hands of the IRS. Like the DEA, the IRS uses parallel construction to cloak the source of the tip.
33. Even the President's handpicked Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board recommended that the government end Section 215 mass telephone records collection, because that collection is ineffective, illegal, and likely unconstitutional.
34. The NSA has plans to infect potentially millions of computers with malware implants as part of its Tailored Access Operations.
35. The NSA had a secret $10 million contract with security firm RSA to create a "back door" in the company's widely used encryption products.
36. The NSA tracked access to porn and gathered other sexually explicit information "as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches."
37. The NSA and its partners exploited mobile apps, such as the popular Angry Birds game, to access users' private information such as location, home address, gender, and more.
38. The Washington Post revealed that the NSA harvests "hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans."
Many of the Snowden revelations have concerned the NSA's activities overseas, as well as the activities of some of the NSA's closest allies, such as the its UK counterpart GCHQ. Some of these have been cooperative ventures. In particular, the "Five Eyes"-- The United States, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada-- share citizen data amongst themselves - providing loopholes that might undermine national legislation.
39. The NSA paid its British counterpart GCHQ $155 million over the last three years "to secure access to and influence over Britain's intelligence gathering programmes."
40. The Guardian reported: "In one six-month period in 2008 alone, [GCHQ] collected webcam imagery -- including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications -- from more than 1.8-million Yahoo user accounts globally."
41. GCHQ used malware to compromise networks belonging to the Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom.
42. Major telecommunications companies including BT, Vodafone, and Verizon business have given GCHQ unlimited access to their fiberoptic cables
43. GCHQ used DDoS attacks and other methods to interrupt Anonymous and LulzSec communications, including communications of people not charged with any crime.
44. GCHQ's Bude station monitored leaders from the EU, Germany, and Israel. It also targeted non-governmental organizations such as Doctors of the World.
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