How the NSA is Transforming Law EnforcementNadia Kayyali There are two key points necessary to understand the domestic aspect of NSA surveillance: the integral role of the FBI in helping the NSA spy on Americans, and the acceptance of usage of NSA material for domestic and traditional law enforcement purposes. These are contingent, of course, on the fact that the NSAs procedures allow widespread targeting of Americans. Much of the material published on May 13 expanded on the disturbing revelations that weve already seen, but there were some standout points: new information about the degree of spying on the U.N. and other foreign officials, documents demonstrating the economic espionage aspect of NSA surveillance, and some interesting technical details about NSA programs. Among those technical details, what was especially striking for those of us in the United States were the slides that described how the FBI enables NSA surveillance. A series of slides demonstrated that the FBI essentially serves as an attack dog for the NSA, doing the NSAs domestic dirty work. One slide, which was previously published, notes that for purposes of PRISM, relationships with communications providers are only through the FBI. (slide23.jpg). Another slide describes how the FBI and NSA partner to address an unreliable and incomplete Facebook collection system. (slide81.jpg). Clearly, the NSA would have a much more difficultif not impossibletime collecting information without the FBI. None of this should be surprising. Its easy to forget that Section 215 of the Patriot Act allows the Federal Bureau of Investigationnot the NSAto apply for production of business records. Remember the Verizon order that jumpstarted the NSA surveillance conversation? That order was an application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by the FBI for production of Verizons business records to the NSA. The national discourse since June 6, 2013, has been about NSA spying. But talking about NSA spying on its own doesnt make sense. We need to be talking about the surveillance state as a whole. And its not just the FBI that we should be concerned about. The NSAs role in ordinary investigations is not new information. But every document that expands on the NSAs involvement in anything domestic, and not national security related, should ring alarm bells for everyone in the United States. We know now that: Everything we now know about the NSA paints a picture of an agency that has grown wildly outside the bounds of its purposeto protect national security. The national security justifications for dragnet surveillance ring hollow. Its time to take Congress and the President to task for this, and call for an end to the unchecked actions of our dangerous spy agenciesthe NSA and the FBI. 