Parts of NSA's PRISM program declassified

This is the problem at the core of PRISM, a U.S. surveillance program disclosed yesterday by the Washington Post and the Guardian. The government has decided that the difficulty of distinguishing foreigners from Americans won't be its problem anymore.Documents obtained by the Guardian, which disclosed the Prism system last week, suggested that GCHQ had generated 197 intelligence reports from Prism last year. The system would appear to allow GCHQ to bypass formal legal processes to accessAfter the flurry of reports about the NSA's alleged PRISM surveillance program earlier today, the U.S.'s Director of National Intelligence James RWe now know that the NSA uses something called PRISM to monitor private Web data. Sounds like '1984.' What does it really mean? Read this article by Emily Dreyfuss on CNET News.The National Security Agency (NSA) has requested a criminal probe to track down those responsible for the leak of the PRISM global internet surveillance program. The US American intelligence community is reeling over the revelation of the NSA's massive
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