DEA Agents Are Told To Cover Up Spying Program Used Against Americans

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29. What is that?

Let me help you out a bit...

From a slightly more direct article about how NSA data gets shared for nonterrorism purposes.

Which FIRMLY brings into the argument the Constitutionality of this entire farce.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/us/other-agencies-clamor-for-data-nsa-compiles.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

The money quote, with the good bit emphasized:

The security agency’s spy tools are attractive to other agencies for many reasons. Unlike traditional, narrowly tailored search warrants, those granted by the intelligence court often allow searches through records and data that are vast in scope. The standard of evidence needed to acquire them may be lower than in other courts, and the government may not be required

That has nothing to do with my point, and the title of the article you linked to is: Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. Compiles

From the link:

Smaller intelligence units within the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security have sometimes been given access to the security agency’s surveillance tools for particular cases, intelligence officials say.

But more often, their requests have been rejected because the links to terrorism or foreign intelligence, usually required by law or policy, are considered tenuous. Officials at some agencies see another motive — protecting the security agency’s turf — and have grown resentful over what they see as a second-tier status that has undermined their own investigations into security matters.

Like I said, the Reuters piece, which is cited in the OP, indicates that this has nothing to do with NSA programs, and is about criminal investigations, including international crimes.