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NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance
An anonymous reader writes: On Christmas Eve, the NSA quietly dropped 12 years worth of internal reports on surveillance that may have broken laws, including reports that were illegally withheld and the subject of a FOIA lawsuit in 2009. "The heavily-redacted reports include examples of data on Americans being e-mailed to unauthorized recipients, stored in unsecured computers and retained after it was supposed to be destroyed, according to the documents. ... In a 2012 case, for example, an NSA analyst 'searched her spouse’s personal telephone directory without his knowledge to obtain names and telephone numbers for targeting,' according to one report (PDF). The analyst 'has been advised to cease her activities,' it said. Other unauthorized cases were a matter of human error, not intentional misconduct. Last year, an analyst 'mistakenly requested' surveillance 'of his own personal identifier instead of the selector associated with a foreign intelligence target,' according to another report." Here's there list of reports going back to 2001.
Anyone? Hello?
Humans are egotistical, oppressive, homicidal maniacs so whats new. Everybody talking about NSA spying but what about Federal and State civil forfeiture laws where our government(especially the local and state police) pretty much steals(money, electronics, automobiles, homes) outright from the citizens without being charged of any crime especially on the highways, 4th amendment pretty much gone. Civil and supreme court always sides with law enforcement and you pretty much piss away thousands of dollars more on lawyers and achieve nothing.
We are no better than the rest of the world or any fascist states before and after. USA like so many other countries have always oppressed their citizens from race to gender and it's always gonna be this way. It does not matter what bullshit ideology(Law, religion,atheism) you believe in because in the end humans are humans and none of that ideology which is really "wolf in sheep's" clothing will change Human nature.
the high and mighty keep doing evil shit until they start landing on the bottom bunk under Bubba in an overcrowded jail.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Insightful.
It's probably a form of the same sociopathy/psychopathy which is prevalent amongst big-company CEOs that motivates people to seek out positions where they can tell others what to do.
Sure, there's a need for bosses in some cases, but deliberately seeking that out, where the objective is to be able to order people around rather than accomplish a specific goal, has to be some kind of mental illness or atavistic throwback.