GCHQ has received at least 100 million from the US to help fund intelligence gathering, raising questions over American influence on the British agencies. The money was paid across a range of projects over three years and resulted in GCHQ spying on behalf of America, according to leaked documents. It also emerged that the intelligence agency wants the ability to exploit any phone, anywhere, any time" and that some staff have raised concerns over the "morality and ethics" of their operational work. The payments from the US National Security Agency (NSA) are detailed in GCHQ's annual "investment portfolios", leaked by Mr Snowden to The Guardian. The NSA paid GCHQ 22.9 million in 2009, 39.9 million in 2010 and 34.7 million in 2011/12. The 2010 funding included ... 17.2 million for the agency's "Mastering the Internet" project, which gathers "raw" information from the web to be analysed. In return, GCHQ has to have the American view in mind when prioritising work, the papers claim. One strategy briefing disclosed the pressure on GCHQ to meet NSA demands, saying: "GCHQ must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight." In another document, from 2010, GCHQ apparently acknowledged that the US had "raised a number of issues with regards to meeting NSA's minimum expectations".