NSA deputy director John Inglis suggests turf war with FBI, other agencies over data trove

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John Inglis appears at University of Pennsylvania to argue legality of bulk surveillance and indicates stance on Feinstein bill

NSA deputy director John Inglis suggests turf war with FBI, other agencies over data trove
By Spencer Ackerman, The Guardian
Saturday, November 23, 2013 11:06 EST

The deputy director of the National Security Agency on Friday sounded skeptical about permitting the FBI, DEA or other law enforcement agencies to directly search through the NSA’s vast data troves, as a new bill would appear to permit.

A bill recently approved by the Senate intelligence committee on a 13-4 vote blesses the ability of law enforcement agencies to directly conduct “queries of data” from NSA databases of foreign-derived communications content “for law enforcement purposes”.

John C Inglis, the top civilian at the NSA, said he was unfamiliar with the proposed legislation during a late-afternoon dialogue at the University of Pennsylvania Law School – a forum that allowed for occasionally blunt questioning of a senior NSA official.

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But in the six months since the Guardian, the Washington Post and others began publishing material derived from provided by a former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, Inglis’ statement is the clearest yet that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies cannot search through the NSA’s data troves directly. Recently declassified and heavily redacted opinions of the special US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the Fisa court, have not made clear to what extent law enforcement agencies have unmediated access to NSA databases.