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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.
The ends don't justify the means if the end result of those ends means that in the end you become the very thing you were fighting against. THE END.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
So, the FBI and NSA both went beyond the scope of the court's instructions and may have violated the law. "Extremely concerned?" yeah there's nothing wrong here.
Just wait until the court discovers how far back this monitoring goes, and how deep it extended. They'll be suitably upset with the govs lack of candor, I'm sure, and then just maybe they'll discover how deep the corruption goes only to sweep it under the rug and continue business as usual.