Posted on 08/24/2013 6:18:02 AM PDT by xzins
The National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted some of their officers misused the agencys massive spying powers to keep tabs on their love interests, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Friday night.
NSA employees reportedly dubbed the practice with its very own spy label: LOVEINT.
U.S. officials said some of the violations included overseas communications, but claimed the practice was very rare, according to the WSJ.
Officials reportedly said all employees involved were appropriately disciplined. The incidents were often self-reported, revealed while the officers took polygraph tests during routine security clearance renewals, according to the WSJ.
NSA has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agencys authorities, the NSA said in a statement Friday.
The revelations come in the wake of learning this week that the NSA had violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions. NSA Chief Compliance Officer John DeLong had stressed earlier most violations were unintentional.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told the WSJ that the NSA admitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee policies were violated in a set of isolated incidents.
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No kidding.
I just have to wonder if any missing kids can be traced to this crap.
Or any missing adults either.
I wonder how many drug gangs have insiders giving them information on the competition. Or LEOs.
The Gov is “eat up with liberals”
How does one change that?
VOTE
Vote Local
Vote State
Vote Fed
At present it is.
His Dad has been telling him to shut up, because he knows he will never see him again if he keeps singing his crazy song.
Snowdens lawyer told them both to shut up because they are being monitored in Russia.
Snowden is an idiot.
He thinks he can hide behind the freedom of the Communists.
What Irony.
I have to tell you, the last time your vote really truly mattered (and you can be sure it wasn’t just summarily thrown away or ‘outvoted’ by those in charge of the outcome) was probably the 1980’s.
Now that there’s computerized voting you can never be sure if your vote was really counted. You can never be sure there weren’t X votes manufactured to negate your vote.
We’re at that uncomfortable stage...
Clearly the ballot box is broken. And there’s no real good way to fix that without some unpleasantness. I’m not talking sweat, but I can’t rule out tears.
I believe in paper ballots and hand counting. Won’t kill us to wait a week for the results. After all, the guy doesn’t take office for nearly 3 months after the election. I, too, do not trust electronic voting. It is too easily controlled, and as you say, there’s really no recourse regarding the tabulation.
I voted for Bob Deuell as my senator and will vote for him again.
He has done more to stop that evil Wendy Davis Beeotch than anyone in the country.
Abortion Barbie is being backed by the entire DNC nationally.
"I got your pink running shoes right here Wendy"
Bob is kicking her ass locally.
Vote!
Vote Local!
Vote State!
Vote Fed!
You see how this works?
Wendy Davis will never see the national stage, even with full backing of the DNC, if we knock her out locally.
Obama has Eric holder mucking about with voter ID here in Tx, even though the supreme court has ruled in our favor, but they still can’t beat us if we vote locally.
They want her in the halls of power in DC.
BUT WE SAY NO!
Send jerks to DC and you get jerks in power.
Our votes are electronic.
We suspect, but have no way to prove, shenanigans with the ‘12 election locally.
YMMV.
Want to see shenanigans with local elections?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3056731/posts?page=4
Read the links in post 8.
BTW, there is just as much traceability on an electronic vote as a paper vote.
I use the paper ballot, it is then scanned electronically.
Anyone could lose the paper ballots and anyone could fiddle the computer.
So you have to know who the local elections officials are don’t you?
Or, gasp! You could BE the local elections official.
Down here?
Yeah. Right.
Did you read the links?
The second link in post 6 on that thread gives the background.
The courthouse was left UNLOCKED OVERNIGHT while vote counting was going on.
And the security cameras seem to have been not working.
And the bit about using NCIC to intimidate witnesses and workers.
Face it. You live in a part of the country where the voters and officials are still homogenous enough that you can trust that the right thing has been done.
That’s just not so for most of the country now.
For those other parts of the country, all voting does is alert the enemy to your presence.
Then you must restore local gov.
I cannot do it for you and it will not be done at a federal level
It’s impossible to restore local government when the demographics are 60% black.
Just wait till TX is 60% Mexican.
You’ll see what it’s like then.
Texas has always been about 30% Mexican.
This used to be Mexico, but now it is Texas.
Mexicans wear cowboy hats, blacks wear cowboy hats.
When we lose that common identity locally, then things start to disintegrate, but what does any of this have to do with NSA? Other than you can send people you trust and know to the Federal Gov or you can send people to govern you who you do not know?
What does this have to do with the NSA?
The fact that there’s no way to CHANGE any of that via the voting booth anymore.
Mexicans and Blacks may wear cowboy hats but they certainly don’t VOTE like it.
Plenty of blacks in Hattiesburg wear camo and drive pickup trucks and go to church every sunday. When it comes time to vote they vote straight commie every single time.
Ditto Mexicans in TX.
Racial grievance >> common sense every single time.
now that’s just creepy
Dunno what to tell you.
I speak to lack and hispanic folks the same way I speak to white folks.
All politics is local
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