This Shadow Government Agency Is Scarier Than the NSA

Today, through a series of high-level classified authorities and commercial relationships, the National Security Analysis Center has access to over 130 databases and datasets of information comprising some two billion records, over half of which are unique and not contained in any other government information warehouse. The Center is, in fact, according to interviews with government officials, the sole organization in the U.S. government with the authority to delve deeply into the activities and associations of foreigners and Americans alike.