[nyolfen]

i should have been less ambiguous, sorry -- USSID 18 is derived from EO 12333, and USSID 18 nominally provides protections to US citizens from being spied upon; USSID 18 also is what has a secret interpretation by NSA lawyers that most people would probably feel is not in the spirit of the EO. here's a very nice writeup:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/primer-executive-order...

section 4 outlines collection policy, beginning on page 6 of the pdf:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/1118/CLEANEDFinal%20USSI...

[lern_too_spel]

Section 9 of that document defines "collection" to mean what you would expect it to mean.

[nyolfen]

the issue is that there is a secret interpretation of it, as i explained in each of the above posts

edit: if the term' collection' is your major gripe, i apologize -- i rewatched the video i cited and the term is actually 'intercept', not 'collect'

[lern_too_spel]

Why don't any of Snowden's documents confirm that they're using this interpretation and instead show that they are interpreting it as everyone else does?