Advertisement Continue reading the main storyNow, other intelligence agencies will be able to search directly through raw repositories of communications intercepted by the N.S.A. In 2002, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court secretly began permitting the N.S.A., the F.B.I. to share raw intercepts gathered domestically under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. National security analysts sometimes search that act’s repository for Americans’ information, as do F.B.I. The limits on using Americans’ information gathered under Order 12333 do not apply to metadata: logs showing who contacted whom, but not what they said.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2017 16:18 UTC