[Hey, it just keeps on coming! -egg]
The Guardian has published two more top-secret NSA memos, courtesy of whistleblower Edward Snowden. The memos are appendices to “Procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons” 1, 2, and they detail the systems the NSA uses to notionally adhere to the law that prohibits them from spying on Americans.More importantly, they expose the “truth” behind NSA director James Clappers assertion that “The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect and was not briefed to Congress.” This turns out to be technically, narrowly true, but false in its implication, as Declan McCullagh explains on CNet: