Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark report: President Obama promised that NSA surveillance activities were aimed exclusively at preventing terrorist attacks. But secret documents from the intelligence agency show that the Americans spy on Europe, the UN and other countries. […] The classified documents, which SPIEGEL has seen, demonstrate how systematically the Americans target…
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New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach
Siobhan Gorman and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries report: The National Security Agency—which possesses only limited legal authority to spy on U.S. citizens—has built a surveillance network that covers more Americans’ Internet communications than officials have publicly disclosed, current and former officials say. The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in…