re: #20 ObserverArt

Then it goes on to say “The U.S. agency is then required to follow so-called minimization rules to protect their privacy, such as deleting the identity of Americans or information that is not deemed necessary to understand or assess the foreign intelligence, before sharing it with other agencies, the paper reported.” IS that not backwards? It wasn’t the NSA that shared it with the Australians, it was the other way around, and the Australians may not have the same rules of stripping out the info.

Here’s my interpretation: The Aussies were giving info to the NSA. The NSA can accept the info but it has to redact the names of Americans before the NSA can pass it on to other agencies like the FBI.