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In a daily series of leaks, on June 6 [[UK]] ''Guardian'' revealed NSA unlimited metadata collection under FISA protection. Data collection on 4 million of Verizon customers are collected daily.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order</ref> The following day the ''Guardian'' revealed NSA tapping through back doors into US internet companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook with a program called Prism [British GCHQ counterpart = Tempora].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data</ref> An 18-page memo also showed Obama ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/07/obama-cyber-directive-full-text</ref> Simultaneously in [[Washington DC|Washington]] Obama publicly defended NSA wiretapping.<ref>https://usnews.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/07/18824941-obama-nobody-is-listening-to-your-telephone-calls?lite</ref> The ''Guardian'' story was more evidence Obama DNI James Clapper misled Congress and the public about the true nature and extent of domestic intelligence gathering in his March 12 sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The following day documents revealed the NSA's Boundless Informant program, which gives the agency near real-time ability to understand how much intelligence coverage there is on certain areas through use of a "heat map."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining</ref>
In a daily series of leaks, on June 6 [[UK]] ''Guardian'' revealed NSA unlimited metadata collection under FISA protection. Data collection on 4 million of Verizon customers are collected daily.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order</ref> The following day the ''Guardian'' revealed NSA tapping through back doors into US internet companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook with a program called Prism [British GCHQ counterpart = Tempora].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data</ref> An 18-page memo also showed Obama ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/07/obama-cyber-directive-full-text</ref> Simultaneously in [[Washington DC|Washington]] Obama publicly defended NSA wiretapping.<ref>https://usnews.newsvine.com/_news/2013/06/07/18824941-obama-nobody-is-listening-to-your-telephone-calls?lite</ref> The ''Guardian'' story was more evidence Obama DNI James Clapper misled Congress and the public about the true nature and extent of domestic intelligence gathering in his March 12 sworn testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The following day documents revealed the NSA's Boundless Informant program, which gives the agency near real-time ability to understand how much intelligence coverage there is on certain areas through use of a "heat map."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining</ref>
====Snowden====
On June 9, 2013 [[Edward Snowden]] stepped forward as the source of NSA leaks published in ''The Guardian''.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-secret-surveillance-lawmakers-live</ref> Introducing himself Snowden said,<ref>https://youtu.be/9u5ecSR_rag</ref>
On June 9, 2013 [[Edward Snowden]] stepped forward as the source of NSA leaks published in ''The Guardian''.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-secret-surveillance-lawmakers-live</ref> Introducing himself Snowden said,<ref>https://youtu.be/9u5ecSR_rag</ref>