NSA Improperly Collected US Phone Call Data After Saying Problem Was Fixed (usatoday.com) 58
An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today: The National Security Agency improperly collected phone call records of Americans last fall, months after a previous breach that compelled the agency to destroy millions of records from the contentious program, documents released Wednesday revealed. The redacted documents, obtained by the ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, do not indicate how many records NSA improperly collected in the October breach, nor which telecommunications provider submitted the improper data. "These documents provide further evidence that the NSA has consistently been unable to operate the call detail record program within the bounds of the law," the ACLU said in a letter to Congress this week lobbying for an end to the program. The letter says elements within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded the October violations had a "significant impact" on privacy and civil rights, but that the Americans affected were not told of the breach.
We used to but (Score:2)
"We used to but we don't anymore"
Heard that for the first time in 1981
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These people are not to be believed. Not when they say they dont collect data on Americans, not when they say Trump colluded with Russians, and most definitely not when they say their mission is to protect you.
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People have a naturally optimistic streak, especially basically honest people who don't normally lie. They tend to assume the same of others. Especially of their leaders.
This optimism is what allows liars like this to maintain their positions of power. The objective among us, who say "liar" when we hear a lie, and who remind people of an office-holder's previous lies, are called cynics. But we aren't. We are just facing reality.
And the reality is that power attracts liars, and it transforms normal peop
NSA is redundant. (Score:1)
All warrantless domestic spying is improper and illegal.
Disband the NSA and imprison the people involved.
We have a CIA and FBI for these things. The NSA is just a money sink trying to justify it's existence by demonizing the US.
Caught the spy! (Score:4, Insightful)
Great! We finally caught the state-sponsored actor who is actively spying on Americans! It is a repeated offender too.
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Time to add the US to the list of rouge states that abuses its own population, and push for regime change. Maybe interfere with their elections to make sure the "right" candidate wins.
Perhaps Putin was right!?
Note: This post is satire. Don't drone me bro.
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but the fact we've had no terror attacks since 9/11 pretty much shows that whatever they're doing is working
the proof is in the pudding, as they say
We also have not been invaded by extraterrestrials.
You can't even put a price on effectiveness like that.
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but the fact we've had no terror attacks since 9/11 pretty much shows that whatever they're doing is working
the proof is in the pudding, as they say
Just like there were no terror attacks right up until 9/10, everything worked perfectly...
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"By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away."
- Lisa Simpson
So as Clapper proved in his false testimony.... (Score:1)
....To Congress proves that neither the NSA nor 'intelligence csar' are under any obligation to tell the truth, regardless, about anything, even under oath.
I'd personally sooner believe a bum on the street than these fucks. Seriously.
Re: So as Clapper proved in his false testimony... (Score:2, Insightful)
Woah woah woah, hold on just a second!
Clapper responded in the least most untruthful manner. (Scratches eyebrow nervously)
How dare you say his testimony was false!
And nobody will go to jail for committing perjury (Score:1, Flamebait)
Clever headline (Score:2)
The problem as far as the NSA was concerned was getting caught, and they did solve that problem temporarily.
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that's why we have to bring liberty and freedom to Iran, to make more freedom gas
A show of hands (Score:1)
Raise your right hand if you think the NSA stopped surveilling Americans when they said they did.
Funny, I don't see any hands up!
tee hee. oopsie did it again. (Score:2)
oops again don't mind us (Score:2)
Just my 2 cents
Worked in government beofre & seen how stuff w (Score:2)
There's little doubt in my mind they have a full feed of absoloutely and utterly every possible thing you could imagine here, what they're in trouble for is "Dave, you're not allowed to capture data from column B on the spreadsheet and D and F only A, C, E and the entire rest in fact, but you can see here, you're still accidentally capturing data from column D due to this script here, we have to fix it or we *could* get in trouble for being naughty"
That's my rough guess, got access to the fucking works, bu
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A couple years ago in court, the DOJ argued that copying (seizing) and searching all traffic through automated means is not a search or seizure under the 4th amendment because no human actually did the seizing and searching. The court upheld this so I assume all data is copied and stored (seized) and searched.