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NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
Washington Post ^ | Thursday August 13, 2013

Posted on 08/15/2013 6:42:52 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

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

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The NSA audit obtained by The Post, dated May 2012, counted 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications. Most were unintended. Many involved failures of due diligence or violations of standard operating procedure. The most serious incidents included a violation of a court order and unauthorized use of data about more than 3,000 Americans and green-card holders.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; nsa; nsaleaks; nsascandal; obama; spying
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To: servantboy777
Just gets worse and worse each passing day. Where is Congress on this?

The Senate takes marching orders from the Office of King so they will never rise up against that office. The Weeper of the House is a SURRENDER MONEY and America put him in that role 2x - God must have another plan that we have not yet been allowed to see. That is the only way I can figure this out because it utterly makes no sense - most Americans I know are not this stupid. We have had a bloodless coup.
41 posted on 08/16/2013 7:04:55 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: lonevoice

Such scary times are these.


42 posted on 08/16/2013 7:40:07 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: servantboy777
I am soooo thankful that Snowden finally validated what many already knew yet vilified when spoken of.

Amen! We desperately need whistleblowers of this filthy, corrupt Regime to come forward. Violating the US Constitution at will is TREASON. Not exposing it.

43 posted on 08/16/2013 7:45:31 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: Red in Blue PA

You’re shocked... SHOCKED!!? ;-)


44 posted on 08/16/2013 7:47:59 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Cheerio
The Senate takes marching orders from the Office of King so they will never rise up against that office.

I have a slightly different take; The NWO Syndicate of Power Brokers are the ones financing and doing the "ordering" within all three branches of government. Maintained US Sovereignty and the 2A are THE only things preventing a One World Government.

...It utterly makes no sense - most Americans I know are not this stupid. We have had a bloodless coup.

You are correct on both counts. The Final Stage of the charade is being played out as we are simply now awaiting the inevitable bloody punctuation, I'm afraid.

45 posted on 08/16/2013 7:52:40 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: NVDave
When people justify the breaking of the law by the government, be it for “security” or convenience, they become traitors to the US Constitution.

It's THAT simple (yet some refuse to or don't quite understand it.)

46 posted on 08/16/2013 7:54:37 AM PDT by USS Johnston (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke)
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To: Bigtigermike

Will the feds go after those who violated the court’s order and the Fourth Amendment as vigorously as they are going after Snowden? At least Snowden didn’t violate the Constitution, and his “crime” is much less egregious than the thousands of NSA employees who didn’t even bother to comply with the court’s order.


47 posted on 08/16/2013 9:49:26 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: null and void

I’m curious as to how this report constitutes a ‘nut job conspiracy’?


48 posted on 08/16/2013 9:55:04 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: USS Johnston
ANY whistleblower who exposes the systematic abuse of the USCON and 0buma's Regime is a "Patriot" to me.


49 posted on 08/16/2013 10:12:27 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: MeganC
First off the N-JCT ping list is used for anything but truly nutty stuff. It is for those things that are true, or at least very probably, but crazy.

Things like illegal, unconstitutional governmental government actions that seek control over moral and law abiding citizens' lives fall firmly into that territory.

More so if a rational person would look at it and say:


50 posted on 08/16/2013 10:25:56 AM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: null and void

Thanks for the explanation! (-:


51 posted on 08/16/2013 10:31:26 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: MeganC
See also: here
52 posted on 08/16/2013 10:40:47 AM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? We can have both!)
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To: All

This morning Rush said that the Obama clown was depicting a scarecrow, and that this is commonly done with whoever the sitting president is


so…

IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN


I could while away the hours
Conferrin with the flowers
Consultin with the rain
And my head I'd be scratchin
While my thoughts were busy hatchin
If I only had a brain

I'd unravel any riddle
For any individd-el
In trouble or in pain
With the thoughts I'd be thinkin
I could be another lincoln
If I only had a brain

Oh, I could tell you why
The ocean's near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I'd sit and think some more

I would not be just a nothin
My head all full of stuffin
My heart all full of pain
Perhaps I deserve you
And be even worthy erve you
If I only had
If I only had a brain
53 posted on 08/16/2013 11:33:42 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Government when it comes to telling us what to do: "You have 20 seconds to comply" (in the voice of Robocop's ED-209) .

Government when it comes to telling them what to do: "Rules? What rules? We don gotta show you no stinkin' rules."

54 posted on 08/16/2013 2:02:54 PM PDT by PapaNew
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Click the pic.

Thomas Jefferson, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, 1786

55 posted on 08/16/2013 5:21:52 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Bigtigermike

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3064092/posts

Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Washington Post ^ | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:59:34 AM by originalbuckeye

The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.


56 posted on 09/08/2013 7:37:44 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( When insane/feral Islamics are killing each other, stand back and let Allah sort them out!)
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