Editing National Security Agency (section)

==== Other SIGINT overseas operations ====
The NSA was also involved in planning to blackmail people with "[[SEXINT]]", intelligence gained about a potential target's sexual activity and preferences. Those targeted had not committed any apparent crime nor were they charged with one.<ref>{{cite news|title=Top-Secret Documents Reveal NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html?1385526024|access-date=May 6, 2014|newspaper=The Huffington Post|date=November 26, 2013|author=Glenn Greenwald|location=London|archive-date=July 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704223727/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html?1385526024|url-status=live}}</ref> To support its [[Facial recognition system|facial recognition]] program, the NSA is intercepting "millions of images per day".<ref>{{cite news|author1=James Risen|author2=Laura Poitras|title=N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html|access-date=June 1, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 31, 2014|archive-date=June 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140601084735/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Real Time Regional Gateway]] is a data collection program introduced in 2005 in Iraq by the NSA during the [[Iraq War]] that consisted of gathering all electronic communication, storing it, then searching and otherwise analyzing it. It was effective in providing information about Iraqi insurgents who had eluded less comprehensive techniques.<ref name="WP71413">{{cite news|title=For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to 'collect it all,' observers say|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-nsa-chief-terrorist-threat-drives-passion-to-collect-it-all/2013/07/14/3d26ef80-ea49-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html|access-date=July 15, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 14, 2013|author=Ellen Nakashima|author2=Joby Warrick|quote=Collect it all, tag it, store it. . . . And whatever it is you want, you go searching for it.|archive-date=March 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301114727/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-nsa-chief-terrorist-threat-drives-passion-to-collect-it-all/2013/07/14/3d26ef80-ea49-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> This "collect it all" strategy introduced by NSA director, [[Keith B. Alexander]], is believed by [[Glenn Greenwald]] of ''[[The Guardian]]'' to be the model for the comprehensive worldwide mass archiving of communications which NSA is engaged in as of 2013.<ref name="NSA71513">{{cite news|title=The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: 'collect it all': The actual story that matters is not hard to see: the NSA is attempting to collect, monitor, and store all forms of human communication|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-nsa-collect-it-all|access-date=July 16, 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=July 15, 2013|author=Glenn Greenwald|archive-date=March 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310132541/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-nsa-collect-it-all|url-status=live}}</ref>

A dedicated unit of the NSA locates targets for the [[CIA]] for extrajudicial assassination in the Middle East.<ref name="MillerTateTargeted">Greg Miller and Julie Tate, October 17, 2013, "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/documents-reveal-nsas-extensive-involvement-in-targeted-killing-program/2013/10/16/29775278-3674-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html Documents reveal NSA's extensive involvement in targeted killing program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823063930/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/documents-reveal-nsas-extensive-involvement-in-targeted-killing-program/2013/10/16/29775278-3674-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html |date=2017-08-23 }}", ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved October 18, 2013.</ref> The NSA has also spied extensively on the European Union, the United Nations, and numerous governments including allies and trading partners in Europe, South America, and Asia.<ref>Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid und Holger Stark. "[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/nsa-hat-wanzen-in-eu-gebaeuden-installiert-a-908515.html Geheimdokumente: NSA horcht EU-Vertretungen mit Wanzen aus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518182038/https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/nsa-hat-wanzen-in-eu-gebaeuden-installiert-a-908515.html |date=2024-05-18 }}". ''Der Spiegel'' (in German). Retrieved June 29, 2013.</ref><ref>"[http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-hoerte-zentrale-der-vereinte-nationen-in-new-york-ab-a-918421.html US-Geheimdienst hörte Zentrale der Vereinten Nationen ab] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512130608/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nsa-hoerte-zentrale-der-vereinte-nationen-in-new-york-ab-a-918421.html |date=2024-05-12 }}". ''Der Spiegel'' (in German). Retrieved August 25, 2013.</ref> In June 2015, [[WikiLeaks]] published documents showing that NSA spied on [[France|French]] companies.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/wikileaks-enthuellung-nsa-soll-auch-franzoesische-wirtschaft-bespitzelt-haben-a-1041268.html Spiegel.de: Wikileaks-Enthüllung, NSA soll auch französische Wirtschaft bespizelt haben (German)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919202253/http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/wikileaks-enthuellung-nsa-soll-auch-franzoesische-wirtschaft-bespitzelt-haben-a-1041268.html |date=2016-09-19 }}, June 2015</ref> WikiLeaks also published documents showing that NSA spied on federal German ministries since the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/wikileaks-und-taeglich-gruesst-die-nsa/12034888.html|title=Wikileaks: Und täglich grüßt die NSA|author=|date=July 9, 2015|website=Handelsblatt.com|access-date=March 10, 2017|archive-date=October 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018075016/https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/wikileaks-und-taeglich-gruesst-die-nsa/12034888.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nsa-skanal-us-spionage-ist-eine-demuetigung-fuer-deutschland-1.2558131|title=US-Spionage ist eine Demütigung für Deutschland|first=Tanjev|last=Schultz|website=Süddeutsche.de|date=9 July 2015|access-date=23 February 2022|archive-date=23 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223192449/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nsa-skanal-us-spionage-ist-eine-demuetigung-fuer-deutschland-1.2558131|url-status=live}}</ref> Even Germany's Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]]'s cellphones and phones of her predecessors had been intercepted.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-german-chancellery-decades-wikileaks-claims-merkel|title=NSA tapped German Chancellery for decades, WikiLeaks claims|agency=Reuters|date=8 July 2015 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>