Editing National Security Agency (section)

=== Data mining ===
NSA was reported in 2008 to use its computing capability to analyze "transactional" data that it regularly acquires from other government agencies, which gather it under their jurisdictional authorities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120511973377523845 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124141023/http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120511973377523845.html |archive-date=January 24, 2009 |title=NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data |first=Siobahn|last=Gorman|publisher=The Wall Street Journal Online|date=March 10, 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=March 14, 2014}}</ref>

A 2013 advisory group for the Obama administration, seeking to reform NSA spying programs following the revelations of documents released by Edward J. Snowden,<ref>[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2013-12-12_rg_final_report.pdf Liberty and Security in a Changing World] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124173532/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2013-12-12_rg_final_report.pdf |date=2017-01-24 }} – Report and Recommendations of The President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, December 12, 2013, 308 pages</ref> mentioned in 'Recommendation 30' on page 37, "...that the National Security Council staff should manage an interagency process to review regularly the activities of the US Government regarding attacks that exploit a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer application." Retired cybersecurity expert [[Richard A. Clarke]] was a group member and stated on April 11, 2014, that NSA had no advance knowledge of [[Heartbleed]].<ref name=reuters>{{cite news|title=White House, spy agencies deny NSA exploited 'Heartbleed' bug|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybersecurity-internet-bug-nsa-idUSBREA3A1XD20140411|access-date=April 16, 2014|newspaper=Reuters|date=April 11, 2014|author=Mark Hosenball|author2=Will Dunham|archive-date=April 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415175914/http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/us-cybersecurity-internet-bug-nsa-idUSBREA3A1XD20140411|url-status=live}}</ref>