Obama's team 'asked for NSA secrets on more than 30,000 Americans in 2016 and circulated 6,000 intelligence reports WITHOUT removing their names'
Officials searched for the names of 30,355 Americans in comms metadata
That data includes only information such as email addresses and phone numbers
But they also searched for 5,288 Americans within the communications
Reports were then passed around government depts with their names visible
Legally, NSA gathers only data on foreigners using US infrastructure, it claims
But critics say that it pulls in much more info - including that of US citizens
By James Wilkinson For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:45 EDT, 3 May 2017 | Updated: 06:05 EDT, 4 May 2017
Barack Obama's team used NSA technology to examine data gathered on tens of thousands of Americans abroad during the election, it has emerged.
Officials searched both metadata and the actual contents of communications for the names of more than 30,000 US citizens, according to data released by the he Office of the Director of National Intelligence this week.
And more than 3,000 of the resulting intelligence reports were then circulated among government departments without the names of the searched parties being redacted, sources with direct knowledge told Circa.
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