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One unanticipated consequence of the Snowden revelations is that other agencies now know what to ask for.


Maybe so. But SOD started in the 70s. Its focus was drug cartels. I'm guessing that NSA staff reached out to the FBI.


Yeah, but SOD isn't data sharing exactly (or wasn't?). To quote the Reuters's article:

You'd be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle

This isn't a defense of the program or of parallel construction of course. But it is indicative that raw data wasn't shared, and other agencies didn't know the source or get any idea of how it was obtained.




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