Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation

All of the evidence found in this timeline can also be found in the Summary of Evidence we submitted to the court in Jewel v. National Security Agency (NSA). It is intended to recall all the credible accounts and information of the NSA's domestic spying program found in the media, congressional testimony, books, and court actions. The timeline also includes documents leaked by the Guardian in June 2013 that confirmed the domestic spying by the NSA. The documents range from a Top Secret Court Order by the secret court overseeing the spying, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), to a working draft of an NSA Inspector General report detailing the history of the program. The NSA Inspector General Report is one of two Inspector General reports that the public has seen. The first to be released was written by Inspectors General of the Department of Justice (DOJ), NSA, Department of Defense (DOD), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It was released on July 10, 2009 and investigated the origins and operations of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program. The second report, which was authored solely by the National Security Agency's Inspector General, was leaked by the Guardian on June 27, 2013. The information found in both Inspector General Reports is labeled under the tag, "Inspectors General Reports." For a short description of the people involved in the spying you can look at our Profiles page, which includes many of the key characters from the NSA Domestic Spying program.