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Jackpine Radical

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Fri Aug 16, 2013, 10:58 AM Aug 2013

NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year (Washington Post)

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/421-national-security/18922-nsa-broke-privacy-rules-thousands-of-times-per-year



By Barton Gellman

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 statute and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. e-mails and telephone calls.

The documents, provided earlier this summer to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, include a level of detail and analysis that is not routinely shared with Congress or the special court that oversees surveillance. 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.

In one instance, the NSA decided that it need not report the unintended surveillance of Americans. A notable example in 2008 was the interception of a "large number" of calls placed from Washington when a programming error confused the U.S. area code 202 for 20, the international dialing code for Egypt, according to a "quality assurance" review that was not distributed to the NSA's oversight staff.

In another case, 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. The court ruled it unconstitutional.
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NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year (Washington Post) (Original Post) Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 OP
So is 'broke privacy rules' newspeak for 'spying' ?? leftstreet Aug 2013 #1
Nah. I think it translates as Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #2
I have been told, by some here, nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #3
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
3. I have been told, by some here,
Fri Aug 16, 2013, 03:34 PM
Aug 2013

That nobody cares, was also called a traitor and the F and C words...so you know.

By the way, I wear those badges with honor. The mask completely slipped off.

You are in need of some serious nomex if you stand for civil rights. Some folks simply don't care.

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