WATCH | The Obama administration distributed thousands of intelligence reports with the unredacted names of US residents during the 2016 election.
about Americans was subsequently searched and disseminated after President Obama loosened privacy protections to make such sharing easier in 2011 in the name of national security. A court affirmed his order. During his final year in office, President Barack Obama’s team significantly expanded efforts to search National Security Agency intercepts for information about Americans, distributing thousands of intelligence reports across government with the unredacted names of U.S. residents during the midst of a divisive 2016 presidential election.
The data, made available this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provides the clearest evidence to date of how information accidentally collected by the NSA overseas
"President Obama's team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election" https://t.co/X7tl2lVmbP
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