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 agency’s 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 agency’s 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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A good chance it was your wife, because I think it’s illegal in many states to take someone’s dependent children and flee to another state without some kind of court allowance.
In other words, the other parent also has some say in those things.
Not knowing would strike me as grounds for considering it to be in another state.
Same page? You betcha.
Yes, but that is why the people must remain diligent and not slothful in regard to Gov.
The people are the Gov and we must be engaged, but at some point we must trust as well, if Gov is to work.
I do not expect NSA to reveal means and methods to the world.
It would hamstring them as to being effective.
IMHO Snowden is a traitor.
Your ex wasn’t the creepy guy across the hall who was abusing his power to listen in on all your phone calls and emails. And find out what brand of deodorant you wear and what you drink your coffee out of in the morning.
Don’t assume ‘love interest’ means there was any formal relationship between the stalker and the stalkee.
I was stalked back in the 80’s by a guy in one of my college classes. Never went out with him, in fact told him I wasn’t interested in dating (anyone) right then. Didn’t even slow him down. He stole my car keys out of my purse in lab one day, had copies made and proceeded to move my car around campus ‘for’ me. Also made a copy of my dorm room key and ‘rearranged’ my private stuff when my roommate and I were out of town for the weekend. He followed me off campus one day to the grocery store and when walked out of the store and got in my car he was in the backseat.
I can only imagine how icky it would have been if he’d been privy to my electronic doings and phone calls.
There ya go.
So I had to swallow my hurt and work within the system.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Well that is clearly a violation of your privacy.
In my case I had “need to know”
I want to know if any of these ‘love interests’ were juveniles.
Oh, just figured it out, after spell check corrects the lower to upper case, all I have to do is go back and make it lower case and it stays. Whew, that's a relief. I thought from now on I would HAVE TO capitalize proper nouns that disgust me. Whew.
5.56mm
Smokem if you gottem.
Why?
The point is that any agents that misused Gov equipment for personal reasons are in violation the law and will be disciplined harshly.
IMHO Snowden is a traitor.
He said just enough to breakdown trust in Gov and compromise the NSA.
Believe me, NSA agents are not interested in mundane domestic issues unless they play into something of importance to national security.
Obama is more than likely being blackmailed by the nsa, cia and other agencies that we don’t even know exists.
Stooges make great presidents for the “off book” government of ours.
Why I don’t think Snowden is a traitor.
There were 2 provisions of the law:
1) You CAN intercept overseas terrorists AND even their conversations in the US.
2) You cannot intercept US traffic. It is expressly labeld as forbidden, illegal.
Snowden revealed that #2 was taking place. That makes him a whistleblower and not a traitor.
To date he has not given any info regarding #1, that I know of.
On the other hand, Obama revealed a few weeks back that we intercepted overseas conversations between the head of Al Qaeda and the head of Yemen’s Al Qaeda branch, and he gave the content of the interception.
The government is ‘eat up with’ pedophiles.
I’m wondering if they’re using their resources to get these children into social services to have easier access to them.
Most if not all of Sandusky’s victims had been through the social services/foster care system at some point.
I think Snowden is playing a very nasty game.
This guy abandoned his family and made a beeline to communist China.
Obama was a stooge before he ran for president. How do you go from Occidental to Columbia (where no one remembers you) to Harvard Law School—and they change the rules so you can be editor of the Law Review? All of this for an intellectual midget with a radical background.
How the hell does that happen? Obama is a fraud.
*News flash*
The amount of creeps in Gov is probably equal to the amount of creeps in society.
Not everyone in Gov wears a white hat.
He’s not married but had a girlfriend.
I never heard that he had children.
I know his Dad has been fighting for him all along.
lol.
I would bet there is a much higher incidence of “creeps” in government than in the general public
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