Total bullshit. Their "records" of email all go through an email server. That's how they're "set up" "at this time" and at any time. I'm pretty sure they don't use Google mail. But, even if they did, Google techs could get that information. Give any internet tech person ten minutes with the NSA mail server, and they can get that information for you.I filed a request last week for emails between NSA employees and employees of the National Geographic Channel over a specific time period. The TV station had aired a friendly documentary on the NSA and I want to better understand the agency's public-relations efforts.
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The NSA is a "supercomputing powerhouse" with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture.
But ask the NSA, as part of a freedom of information request, to do a seemingly simple search of its own employees' email? The agency says it doesn’t have the technology.
"There's no central method to search an email at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately," NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told me last week.
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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