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(Updated: February 9, 2016) One of the most important documents that has been disclosed as part of the Snowden-leaks is also one of the least-known: the Strategic Mission List from January 2007, which provides a detailed list of the goals and priorities for the National Security Agency (NSA). This Strategic Mission List was published by The New York Times on November 2, 2013, as one of three original NSA documents that accompanied a long report about the how NSA spies on both enemies and allies. > The Strategic Mission List in .pdf-format About the publication On the website of The New York Times (NYT), the Strategic Mission List was published as a series of images in png-format, which made it impossible to copy or search the text. It was also difficult to print the document in a readable way. For reasons unknown, NYT is the only media-outlet that published Snowden-documents in this not very user-friendly way. Hence I asked The New York Times whether they could provide the Strat

(Updated: May 16, 2015) Last week, on September 6, the US Justice Department released a declassified version of a 2004 memorandum about the STELLARWIND program. The memorandum (pdf) is about the legality of STELLARWIND, which was a program under which NSA was authorized to collect content and metadata without the warrants that were needed previously. Here we will not discuss the STELLARWIND program itself, but take a close look at the STELLARWIND classification marking, which causes some confusion. Also we learn about the existance of mysterious compartments that point to some highly sensitive but yet undisclosed interception programs. > See also: The US Classification System Classification marking of the 2004 DoJ memorandum about STELLARWIND The redacted markings The first thing we see is that two portions of the classification marking have been blacked out: 1. The redacted space beween two double slashes This is very strange, because according to the official classification ma

(Updated: February 7, 2018) For fulfilling its task of gathering foreign signals intelligence, the National Security Agency (NSA) is cooperating with partner agencies from over 35 countries all over the world. These relationships are based upon secret bilateral agreements, but there are also some select groups in which intelligence information is shared on a multilateral basis, like the SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR), the SIGINT Seniors Pacific (SSPAC) and the Afghanistan SIGINT Coalition (AFSC). Until recently, very little was known about these foreign relationships, but the Snowden-leaks have revealed the names of all the countries that are cooperating with NSA. This made it possible to create the following graphic, which also shows various multilateral intelligence exchange groups, which will be discussed here too. - 2nd Party Partners - 3rd Party Partners - Multilateral groups - Nations with 2nd and 3rd Party status and those who are members of the SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR)