German, NSA SIGINTers Share DNI Processing Knowledge
Document Date:
May 22, 2006
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected:
Internet Metadata, Internet Content
NSA memo announcing collaboration with the German BND through the Joint SIGINT Activity (JSA), a joint SIGINT development, collection, and exploitation site manned by German and US personnel. This collaboration gives NSA access to approach a "hunt versus gather" philosophy by placing less concern on maximizing privacy protection and greater emphasis on processing and analyzing intercepted email content and attachments. Through this program, the focus is on scanning emails carrying attachments rather than evaluating selected traffic by target or keyword.