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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Re:The ends, in this case, justify the means.

[Joce640k]

QFT.

The chance of dying by terrorism does NOT justify 10 trillion in spending, all this spying on the population and being sexually molested every time you want to travel more than a few miles.

Domestic Spying is a Crime With No Punishment

[BrendaEM]

What are the ramifications if they get caught?
We are not going to see a change until officials go to jail for domestic spying.