NSA takes surveillance fact sheets off website

Following a complaint from Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO), the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed light on and defend a pair of surveillance programs.

Users now trying to access the documents detailing surveillance under legal authorities known as Section 215 and Section 702 receive an error message when they try to load the fact sheets. "After reviewing your letter, I agree that the fact sheet that the National Security Agency posted on its website on 18 June 2013 could have more precisely described the requirements for collection under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act," said NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander.