@MikeDunnAuthor
I was stationed at the NSA as a part of the Army Security Agency in the late 70s. As an analyst, I saw a lot of raw data after it was collected. We were forbidden from retaining any communication that originated in the U.S. unless it was made to a hostile nation. We only had an in-house network, no internet. I wonder if their charter was amended to allow for domestic surveillance of domestic internet traffic. Domestic surveillance was not the original mission of the agency.