Secret U.S. court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A secret U.S. intelligence courtroom let the Nationwide Safety Company gather an extended quantity of knowledge about American citizens' electronic mail even after discovering that the agency systematically handed the bounds of a smaller application, newly launched documents exhibit. The judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court docket recounted a litany of problems with the first, smaller software, including the NSA accumulating more classes of data than had been licensed via the court and sharing knowledge more broadly throughout the digital eavesdropping company than had been licensed. At difficulty are emails amongst U.S. citizens that the NSA scooped up in its pursuit of foreign intelligence. The programs let the NSA search for American citizens who had digital contact with people who have been in turn linked to individuals opposed to america.