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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order.
Originally posted by IAMTAT
This is Breaking news from the Washington Post...released tonight. I suppose it was only a matter of time before we found out as fact, what we all assumed would be revealed in time.
Still, the fact remains (as this internal audit reveals) that over two thousand incidents occurred where privacy rules were violated by the NSA.
I'm sure we'll soon be discovering much more as this story continues to unfold.
www.washingtonpost.com
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typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls.
a programming error confused U.S. area code 202 for 20
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has authority over some NSA operations, did not learn about a new collection method until it had been in operation for many months.
“We’re a human-run agency operating in a complex environment with a number of different regulatory regimes, so at times we find ourselves on the wrong side of the line,” a senior NSA official said
One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error
Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
I just wanna come clean now:
Dear NSA,
I know you're reading this, I just want to say that the page I clicked on last year, the one involving the blonde and the horse, It was an accidental click, honestly.
Yours faithfully,
Zcm
In all seriousness, this isn't really surprising newsedit on 15-8-2013 by Zcustosmorum because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bassago
One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error
In one of the documents, agency personnel are instructed to remove details and substitute more generic language in reports to the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
You beat me to it.
Originally posted by Majic
Tempus Fugitive
"Thousands of times per year"? Given the fact that the NSA monitors virtually all the world's major communication streams, I suspect more like thousands of times a second.
In fact, probably on the order of thousands of times a microsecond.
Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
I just wanna come clean now:
Dear NSA,
I know you're reading this, I just want to say that the page I clicked on last year, the one involving the blonde and the horse, It was an accidental click, honestly.
Yours faithfully,
Zcm
In all seriousness, this isn't really surprising newsedit on 15-8-2013 by Zcustosmorum because: (no reason given)
Our bad. Sorry.
Originally posted by GArnold
On NPR this morning they said the NSA intercepts 32 petaflops of information not a year not a month not a week but a day. This number is obviously skewed as a pre emptive measure at Damage Control. Gen Hayden when he was in charge of the NSA was warned by his own lawyers the programs were illegal and he disregarded the information and went forward with more intrusive programs anyway. We will never know the truth but it will be shocking. The fact that the secret FISA courts were not informed of some programs is very disturbing. Hell the whole idea of secret courts is upsetting.
As I said in another thread the Who lyric
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" seems to apply to this fiasco.
I simply do not trust the US media to provide unbiased reporting on this matter.
edit on 16-8-2013 by GArnold because: (no reason given)edit on 16-8-2013 by GArnold because: (no reason given)