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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.washingtonpost.com ...
How many ordinary conservative citizens would be allowed to get away with committing crimes if they were all just innocent mistakes? /rhetorical
Extrapolating and/or parsing...
If 3000 is a few times, then they must be checking a vast amount of people overall in order to make 3000 erroneous wiretaps/email scans/ data mining excursions appear to be miniscule in comparison.
They're all liars.
Impeachment File on Communist, Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
that’s muh story and I am sticking to it
Here's a whole thread where FReepers were fighting having serious discussions about that question.
Engaged in a few scrums myself.
ANY whistleblower who exposes the systematic abuse of the USCON and 0buma's Regime is a "Patriot" to me.
It SHOULD investigate and book itself under the RICO Act.
WaPo reports it, with a dismissive slant on multiple occasions = probable spin management to immunize a revelation that was due to come out anyway.
An old tactic from the Clinton Machine days.
I guess Prez Snoop Dog was playing cards with Reggie. One things for sure he’s dealing the BS from the bottom of the deck.
>> since Congress granted the agency broad new powers
Yet Congress has no culpability....
And this is what is costing the “conservative” movement all of its credibility. All of it.
When people justify the breaking of the law by the government, be it for “security” or convenience, they become traitors to the US Constitution.
Remembering that were it not for Edward Snowden blowing the whistle, there would’ve been NO discovery of this.
The gubmint is free to listen to your phone calls and read your emails ...since these were not around at the time the 4th Amendment was incorporated. (wearing my leftard hat)
And apparently that’s how The Regime reads it:
Justice Department Expands Hunt for Data on Cellphones
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/justice-department-expands-hunt-for-data-on-cellphones/
Obama’s NSA eavesdropping goes beyond that of Bush... after campaigning on the promise of: “ No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me!”
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html
headlines read:” NSA Exceeds Legal Limits In Eavesdropping Program” , “ U.S. phone intercepts go beyond legal limits” , and “NSA Found Improperly Spying on Americans”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123985123667923961.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE53F09820090416
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/justice-dept-nsa-improperly-spied-americans/
Just gets worse and worse each passing day.
Where is Congress on this?
It’s kinda ugly how all this played out, but I am soooo thankful that Snowden finally validated what many already knew yet vilified when spoken of.
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