NSA history
The NSA, or the National Security Agency was established by president Harry Truman on November 4th 1952. The NSA was originally brought about in 1917 by a man named Herbert O. Yardley who …show more content…
was the head of the Cipher Bureau of military intelligence. The Cipher Bureau (or the NSA as known today) was created by direct orders to generate better communication intelligence. Moreover, to win the war between Germany and the USA. After the war came to an end in 1919 the Bureau altered its attention from military to diplomatic intelligence. One major success of the bureau was in 1922 when the surveillance sparked negotiation over navel arms limitations between America and Japan. However, the methods used by the Bureau were questionable.
This was because access to messages coming and going in the us was granted.
The secretary of state Henry stimson felt moral opposition to this method as it was increasing surveillance and invading privacy. Thus, Secretary Stimson closed the agency in 1929.Futhermore, President Hoover also shuttered the agency due to lack of war and a peaceful time. Once Yardley lost his job he became very restless and furious. Yardley then published a book called The American Black Chamber. This book published direct information about the Bureau regarding the activities, exploits, and the countries spied on. This frightened the public, the countries spied on and the intelligence community. Fortunately, five months before this book published the Army decided to form its own agency called the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS). Lastly, in 1952 President Truman reconfigured the SIS to the National Security Agency
NSA Codename Stellar Wind
The NSA ramped their data collection 2001 under the Bush administration. “a federal judge sitting on the secret surveillance, panel called the Fisa court would approve a bulk collection order for internet metadata "every 90 days” According to Akhil Reed Amar
According to uscourts.gov “4th Amendment is the Constitution, through the Fourth Amendment, protect people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Fourth Amendment, however, is not granted against all searches and seizures, but only those that are being unreasonable under the law.” However, Akhil Reed
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