Wyden, Udall vindicated: Obama Admin Caught LYING?

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4. No, and it doesn't give permission. In the

footnote and the article, it states specifically that it's prohibited.

"While the FAA 702 minimization procedures approved on 3 October 2011 now allow for use of certain United States person names and identifiers as query terms when reviewing collected FAA 702 data," the glossary states, "analysts may NOT/NOT (not repeat not) implement any USP (US persons) queries until an effective oversight process has been developed by NSA and agreed to by DOJ/ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence)."

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The document – which is undated, though metadata suggests this version was last updated in June 2012 – does not say whether the oversight process it mentions has been established or whether any searches against US person names have taken place.

Also, this is the foreign program not the NSA domestic programs.