Freedom of Information Act requests to NSA more than doubled in the wake of New York Times reporting that the agency was conducting warrantless wiretapping of Americans, from around 800 in a typical year to more than 1,600 in the first half of 2006. In this SIDToday post from 1 June 2006, a staff member from the responsible department explains their “dirty job”: see the Intercept article 328 NSA Documents Reveal “Vast Network” of Iranian Agents, Details of a Key Intelligence Coup, and a Fervor for Voice-Matching Technology, 15 August 2015.

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