UPDATED 09:34 EDT / JUNE 21 2013

Update LIVE: Any Holes in NSA’s Secret Documents to Protect US Citizens?

Updated with full video – see below.

Following Edward Snowden’s public ouster of the PRISM program, more information has come out regarding NSA practices with The Guardian releasing a statment that the NSA is allowed to use US data without a warrant. Joining us now on today’s Live Morning NewsDesk Show to get us up to speed on the latest details surrounding the NSA PRISM spying scandal is SiliconANGLE Contributing Editor John Casaretto.

See live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand

The Guardian has just released a new bunch of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) documents relating to the NSA’s PRISM spying program, which outline the circumstances under which the NSA can collect data on US citizens, and the measures it must take to “minimize” that data.

The documents have been uncovered as a result of Fisa’s recent court submissions, revealing a broad description of what data can be surveyed by US authorities.  From The Guardian the world will be able to see two full documents submitted to the secret Fisa court, signed by Attorney General Eric Holder and time/date stamped for 29 July 2009. They detail the procedures the NSA is required to follow to target “non-US persons” under its foreign intelligence powers, as well as what the agency does to minimize data collected on US citizens and residents in the course of that particular surveillance.

The documents show that even under authorities governing the collection of foreign intelligence from foreign targets, US communications can still be collected, retained and used.  It’s a slippery slope that only begins to uncover the many lurking questions on everyone’s minds — how is PRISM legal, what does it entail, how does it affect US citizens, and what can citizens do in their own rights?

See John’s live broadcast, embedded below, where he’ll discuss these lurking questions, and discuss any potential holes left in this recently revealed document stack.

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