The federal government has released the NSA’s first transparency report

This morning the Director of National Intelligence released a report detailing its use of various legal authorities in 2013 to execute surveillance, and the number of targets impacted by each method. The move was hinted at in March of this year, when NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett said that the government was “actually working on a proposal right now to be transparent and to publish transparency reports in the same way the Internet companies do.” According to the report, the information that it includes was declassified four days ago. At issue in the data is an incredibly wide definition of the word “target” for the included FISA-related data, which as defined in the document.