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>> and western union. >> so in operation shamrock, what we saw was the nsa turning its foreign intelligence operations internally on american communications? >> exactly, yeah. operation shamrock was getting access to all the communications coming into, going out of and going through the united states. >> there were very few rules back then. very few laws, regulations that dealt with what nsa or any intelligence agency could collect back then. the capabilities were there. the restraints weren't there. the temptation is to do it. >> the committee believes that serious legal and constitutional qu...
Of power at the fbi and the cia. and revealed that the nsa had been spying on americans for decades. >> what was operation shamrock. >> it was a program of the national security agency to collect, to obtain access to telegrams that were leaving the united states for other countries. and the idea was that they -- the nsa would look through these telegrams, look for telegrams of interest from a foreign intelligence standpoint. >> are you saying all the telegrams going out of the u.s.? how did they get access? >> they asked -- i mean, that sounds very simplistic, but they approach the communicati...