NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds

Washington Post ^ | Thursday August 13, 2013

[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.

[....]

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.

[Cheerio]

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.

[Pride in the USA]

Such scary times are these.

[USS Johnston]

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.

[TheOldLady]

You’re shocked... SHOCKED!!? ;-)

[USS Johnston]

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.

[USS Johnston]

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.)

[AtlasStalled]

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.

[MeganC]

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

[Old Sarge]

ANY whistleblower who exposes the systematic abuse of the USCON and 0buma's Regime is a "Patriot" to me.

[null and void]

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:

[MeganC]

Thanks for the explanation! (-:

[null and void]

See also: here

[BigEdLB]

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

[PapaNew]

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."

[RedMDer]

Click the pic.

Thomas Jefferson, Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, 1786

[Grampa Dave]

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.