# Snowden disclosures document NSA bulk collection under Obama-era authorities Date: 2013 ## The fact On 6 June 2013 The Guardian and then other outlets documented NSA bulk telephone-metadata collection under Section 215 and PRISM-class collection under Section 702, programmes the [Obama](/people/barack-obama) administration was using. ## Context FISA Amendments Act and FISC orders sat as parents. Neighbouring drone PPG is a neighbour secrecy file. He did not sit as every NSA analyst. [Clapper](/people/james-clapper) and Alexander ran the agencies. Bush-era 215 sat as parent architecture he continued. Drone PPG 23 May 2013 is a neighbour. Sequester 1 March 2013 is a neighbour domestic cost. Syria August is a later force file. A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. [Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025. ## Evidence and sources White House (archives) carries the official instrument or communique. BBC records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [personal-data protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection) and digital-rights regulation: a completed disclosure of bulk collection. ## What is established and what is not Established: June 2013 public documentation of Section 215/PRISM-class collection, independently reported; the President addressed it on 7 June. Not established: a unique later terrorism-prevented coefficient from that week, or that every American uniquely had a queried dossier. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He continued and defended them. Congress had written 215 and 702.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Snowden disclosures document NSA bulk collection under Obama-era authorities, not a later speech about Snowden disclosures document NSA bulk collection under Obama-era authorities. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Snowden disclosures document NSA bulk collection under Obama-era authorities on 2013-06-06 is not a licence to treat every later White House (archives) communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Snowden disclosures document NSA bulk collection under Obama-era authorities into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to NSA and FISC operated the programmes. He continued and defended them. Congress had written 215 and 702. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama ## Drivers - Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection - Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation ## Sources - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22784389 - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/07/statement-president ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-nsa-2013