21st Century Wire says…
More and more, it seems like this agency believes it is completely above the law.
Proving it’s true nature as an out-of-control, hi-tech clandestine modern equivalent to the East German Stasi – the NSA quietly, and very cynically released a heavily-redacted report on its illegal intelligence surveillance against US citizens – routinely violating US laws and policy for over a decade….
The NSA, responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, released a series of required quarterly and annual reports to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board that cover the period from the fourth quarter of 2001 to the second quarter of 2013.
The heavily-redacted reports include examples of data on Americans being e-mailed to unauthorized recipients, stored in unsecured computers and retained after it was supposed to be destroyed, according to the documents. They were posted on the NSA’s website at around 1:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
In a 2012 case, for example, an NSA analyst ‘searched her spouse’s personal telephone directory without his knowledge to obtain names and telephone numbers for targeting,’ according to one report. The analyst ‘has been advised to cease her activities,’ it said.
Other unauthorized cases were a matter of human error, not intentional misconduct.
Last year, an analyst ‘mistakenly requested’ surveillance ‘of his own personal identifier instead of the selector associated with a foreign intelligence target,’ according to another report.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on DECEMBER 26, 2014.
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