It can be tough to imagine what exactly was going through the minds of National Security Agency officials when they decided they could secretly collect American citizens’ private data in bulk. On stage at Yahoo’s Digital Democracy conference in Des Moines, Iowa this week, the NSA’s former general counsel, Matt Olsen, attempted to explain.
Online advertisements have become so dangerous that even the U.S. Intelligence Community blocks them.
From documents obtained by the ACLU, it turns out that the NSA illegally collected call records after it promised to stop collecting them.
In an exclusive interview with chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge, the new head of NSA cybersecurity discusses evolving threats.
