This spy agency you've probably never heard of almost certainly has a file on you

While we've been focused on the NSA, another domestic surveillance agency has been quietly chugging along, spying on probably all of us. The National Security Analysis Center (NSAC) is a Justice Department division that is remarkably unknown — and expansive. Gawker reports:

The NSAC grew out of a post-9/11 program, the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (FTTTF), which was originally focused on monitoring foreigners suspected of terrorist activity. With the establishment of the NSAC, however, that scope widened to include Americans, zeroing in on Muslims and young people deemed susceptible to terrorist influences, as well as military members and other government employees (plus all their family and friends) who have connections abroad.

Today, the agency conducts mass surveillance in service of the wars on terror and drugs. Because it straddles the line between intelligence and law enforcement, the NSAC "skirts limitations that exist in each community, allowing it to collect and examine information on people who are not otherwise accused of or suspected of any crime."

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