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The National Security Agency (NSA) has deleted surveillance data about warrantless wiretapping ordered by President George W. Bush to recycle some hard drive space, recent federal court filings reveal.<\/p>\n
NSA sought to prevent Snowden-style leaks, ended up losing staff \u2013 whistleblower to RT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In 2007, the NSA was ordered by the court to preserve international communications data obtained through a secret surveillance conducted under President George W. Bush following the 9\/11 attacks. On Thursday, the agency told US District Court Judge Jeffrey White that it had failed to implement court-mandated precautions, resulting in the loss of surveillance data intercepted between 2001 and 2007.<\/p>\n <\/strong>The information collected as part of the President\u2019s Surveillance Program (PSP) is still needed for a number of pending lawsuits, Politico revealed. While the spy agency is currently undertaking efforts to restore as much of this data as possible, the NSA admitted<\/a> to erasing backup tapes in 2009, 2011, and 2016.<\/p>\n Another NSA official revealed on Thursday that the data was simply deleted to make space for more spying content.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018NSA backdoor spying on US citizens requires stringent controls & accountability\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe NSA\u2019s review to date reveals that this Internet content data was not specifically targeted for deletion… but rather the PSP Internet content data matched criteria that were broadly used to delete data of a certain type\u2026 in response to mission requirements to free-up space and improve performance of the back-up system,”<\/em> wrote the official, identified as \u2018Dr. Mark O.\u2019<\/p>\n Thursday\u2019s court filing coincided with the Senate approving a six-year extension of the controversial Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the US government to spy on foreign communications.<\/p>\n Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Security Agency (NSA) has deleted surveillance data about warrantless wiretapping ordered by President George W. Bush to recycle some hard drive space, recent federal court filings reveal. NSA sought to prevent Snowden-style leaks, ended up losing staff \u2013 whistleblower to RT In 2007, the NSA was ordered by the court to preserve international […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}