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These National Security Agency documents shed new light on the agency’s relationship through
the years with American telecommunications companies. They show how the agency’s partnership
with AT&T has been particularly important, enabling it to conduct surveillance, under several different
legal rules, of international and foreign-to-foreign Internet communications that passed through
network hubs on American soil. The documents come from the archive provided by the former
intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden.
The files do not identify the firms by name, but instead refer to the Fairview and Stormbrew programs,
An analysis by The New York Times and ProPublica found a constellation of evidence that AT&T was
the Fairview partner and Verizon was part of the Stormbrew program. The documents range from
2003 to 2013; it is not clear whether the arrangements are the same today. RELATED ARTICLE
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