The headline, the author, the date, with four paragraphs that give the gist of what the article covers, and a link. Set off by the use of the "excerpt" button at the top of the Reply box so readers know what is from the article and what is commentary by the poster.
NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog
Fri Sep 27, 2013 | 3:32 PM EDT
By Alina Selyukh | WASHINGTON
At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have been caught using secret government surveillance tools to spy on the emails or phone calls of their current or former spouses and lovers in the past decade, according to the intelligence agency's internal watchdog.
The practice is known in intelligence world shorthand as "LOVEINT" and was disclosed by the NSA Office of the Inspector General in response to a request by the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican Charles Grassley for a report on abuses of the NSA's surveillance authority.
In one instance in 2005, a military member of the NSA queried six email addresses of a former American girlfriend - on the first day he obtained access to the data collection system. He later testified that "he wanted to practice on the system" and gained no information as a result of his queries.
In another instance, a foreign woman who was employed by the U.S. government suspected that her lover, an NSA civilian employee, was listening to her phone calls. She shared her suspicion with another government employee, who reported it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog-idUSBRE98Q14G20130927
In the OP's defense, the link posted was for a mobile device and some mobile devices do not make it easy to do what I did above. But they could have written a one sentence synopsis to let us know what the article said - and the date would have been nice so readers would know WHEN the information was released.
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