Sharing intelligence

Today we learn that the National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens.  The data we share is not necessarily filtered by NSA to remove government communications.  But, Israel receives signal intelligence, which includes, but is not limited to, unevaluated and unminimized transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content."  The agreement was signed in March 2009, early in the Obama administration.