First, there were revelations regarding calls between former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States. persons,” they must obtain permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. This enables government officials who need to see foreign intelligence to perform their duties without unnecessarily compromising the privacy of Americans. And the intelligence community has worked to increase transparency about unmasking in recent years; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence now routinely publishes statistics on unmasking in publicly available annual reports. person” defined under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as including U.S. citizens, green-card holders and corporations.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2017 18:59 UTC