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Court Troubled By Surveillance Excesses At FBI, NSA (politico.com)

schwit1 quotes a report from Politico: In a just-released court opinion, a federal court judge overseeing government surveillance programs said he was "extremely concerned" about a series of incidents in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency deviated from court-approved limits on their snooping activities. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Thomas Hogan sharply criticized the two agencies over the episodes, referred to by intelligence gatherers as "compliance incidents." He also raised concerns that the government had taken years to bring the NSA-related issues to the court's attention and he said that delay might have run afoul of the government's duty of candor to the court. Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice to reveal whether or not they ever forced a company to provide technical surveillance assistance in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

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  1. Extremely just means finally paying attention by rmdingler · · Score: 4, Funny
    Mildly Concerned: teenage daughter is approaching (what used to be) dating age.

    Modestly Concerned: teenage daughter is indeed dating.

    Extremely Concerned: teenage daughter is dating, and it occurs to you that you know exactly what that boy wants.

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    1. Re:Extremely just means finally paying attention by bentcd · · Score: 4, Funny

      Extremely Concerned: teenage daughter is dating, and it occurs to you that you know exactly what that boy wants.

      Brain Exploded: final realization that that is exactly what your teenager daughter wants too.

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