NSA claims inability to search agency's own emails

[jakeXT]

Despite the ability to monitor the Internet and cell phone activities of millions, the National Security Agency says it lacks the technology necessary to sift through its own employees’ personal email accounts, according to a new report.

The claim came in response from a Freedom of Information Act request sent by Justin Elliot, a reporter at Pro Publica seeking to identify to relationship between the NSA and the National Geographic Channel, which has aired what Pro Publica characterized as sympathetic documentaries on the secretive intelligence entity.

“There’s no central method to search an email at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately,” NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told Elliot, adding that the current system is “a little antiquated and archaic.”

In a trailer for the National Geographic Channel documentary entitled Inside the NSA: America’s Cyber Secrets, an NSA official described the agency as “energy central” and “the emergency room” to gain intelligence for American decision makers.

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-refuses-search-own-emails-496/

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. No doubt the NSA's solution is more trillions, gazillions, or whatever it is.