STORMBREW

National Security Agency surveillance
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Legislation FISA Protect America Act of 2007 FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Patriot Act
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Publication 2005 warrantless surveillance scandal 2013 mass surveillance scandal
Related Cablegate Surveillance of reporters Mail tracking UN diplomatic spying Insider Threat Program Mass surveillance in the United States Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
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STORMBREW is a secret internet surveillance program of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. It was disclosed in the summer of 2013 as part of the leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

STORMBREW is an umbrella program involving surveillance of telecommunications. It falls under the category of "Upstream collection", meaning that data is pulled directly from fiber-optic cables and top-level communications infrastructure. There is also a SIGAD of the same name, which is described as a "key corporate partner." That partner was identified on October 23, 2013 by the Washington Post—quoting NSA historian Matthew Aid—as Verizon.^[1]

A map shows that the collection is done entirely within the United States. This corporate partner has servers in Washington, California, Texas, Florida, and in or around New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.^[2]^[3]^[4] Upstream collection programs allow access to very high volumes of data, and most of the pre-selection is done by the providers themselves, before the data is passed on to the NSA.

The FY 2013 budget for STORMBREW is $46.06 million.^[5] STORMBREW consists of the following SIGADs:

Designation	Covername	Legal Authority^See Note	Key Targets	Type of Information collected	Remarks
US-3140 (PDDG:TM)	MADCAPOCELOT	Executive Order 12333	The country of Russia and European Terrorism	DNI and metadata through XKEYSCORE, PINWALE and MARINA
US-983 (PDDG:FL)	STORMBREW		Global	"DNR (Directory ONMR)" "DNI Collection, limited to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, Cyber hit counts on FAA DNI access"	"Key corporate partner with access to international cables, routers, and switches"

Note: SIGADs not otherwise designated are presumed to operate under the legal authority of Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA)

Glossary

Cyber Hit Counts: no explanation has been provided in the source material.
Directory ONMR: no explanation has been provided in the source material.
DNI: Digital Network Intelligence.^[6]
DNR: Dial Number Recognition.^[6]
MARINA: An NSA Database of Internet metadata.^[7]^[8]
Transit Authority: A legal authority that states communications that transit the United States are collectible, provided that both endpoints are foreign.

Media Relating to STORMBREW and Upstream Collection

Upstream: Map of International Cables
Upstream: Transit Authority
Upstream: Map of Transit Authority
Upstream: Unique Aspects
Upstream: Corporate Portfolio
STORMBREW: STORMBREW SIGAD
STORMBREW: STORMBREW SIGAD map
STORMBREW: MADCAPOCELOT

References

↑ Heil,Emily (October 22, 2013). "What's the deal with NSA's operation names?". Retrieved November 6, 2013.
↑ Gallagher, Ryan (September 9, 2013). "New Snowden Documents Show NSA Deemed Google Networks a "Target"". Retrieved September 10, 2013.
↑ "NSA Documents Show United States Spied Brazilian Oil Giant". September 8, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
↑ Staff (June 6, 2013). "NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
↑ Craig Timberg and Barton Gellman (30 August 2013). "NSA paying U.S. companies for access to communications networks". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
↑ 6.0 6.1 Drum, Kevin (June 8, 2013). "Map of the Day: Who the NSA Listens To". Retrieved September 9, 2013.
↑ Nakashima, Ellen (July 31, 2013). "Newly declassified documents on phone records program released". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
↑ Gellman, Barton (June 15, 2013). "U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata". Retrieved September 9, 2013.