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MAINWAY Phone Metadata Analysis Program

MAINWAY was not just a database. It was one of the NSA’s central systems for storing, correlating, and chaining phone metadata in order to discover networks, identify links, and surface targets of interest. This entry explains what MAINWAY was, how it fit into STELLARWIND and Section 215, and why it became one of the defining symbols of the phone dragnet era.

Declassified / Nsa/surveillance program/2026-03-30

MAINWAY NSA phone metadata contact chaining STELLARWIND President's Surveillance Program

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Edward Snowden and the NSA Document Archive

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.

Declassified / Nsa/historical document archive/2026-03-29

Edward Snowden Snowden archive NSA documents surveillance disclosures PRISM Section 215