Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI receives more than 1,000 tips a year from information gathered from the NSA’s phone-surveillance program, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Newly declassified documents reveal that the NSA averages three tips a day that lead to terrorism probes.
“With respect to any information the FBI receives as a result of this order (information that is passed or “tipped” to it by NSA), the FBI shall follow minimization procedures,” the November 2006 document states. A footnote to that statement adds the NSA “expects that it will continue to provide on average approximately two telephone numbers a day to the FBI.”
The documents, released Friday, come as President Obama pledges to overhaul the system because of the public’s privacy concerns.
It’s unclear how accurate the tips were.
