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PRISM was not the whole surveillance system, but it became the name people remembered. This entry explains how the June 2013 disclosures, the leaked slides, the company logos, the public denials, the government’s own responses, and the later Section 702 debate turned PRISM into the defining word of the NSA controversy.
The Snowden archive is not one vault and not one website. It is a distributed public record built from leaked NSA documents, media publications, court filings, official declassifications, and civil-liberties repositories that turned a classified surveillance system into one of the most documented intelligence controversies in modern history.
Executive Order 12333 is one of the deepest legal and structural roots of the modern NSA. This entry traces how a Reagan-era intelligence order became the enduring executive framework for foreign signals intelligence, how it was revised after 9/11, and how post-Snowden safeguards and the EO 14086 redress system reshaped its modern privacy and oversight environment.