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Originally Posted by DamianJ
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This is the same exact article I just quoted, that I found from your news link.
The first paragraph talks about a mistake that was made AND reported to Congress.
Here's from that article:
In one ?incident? in 2012, according to the newspaper, the NSA unlawfully retained 3,032 files that it had been ordered by the FISA court to destroy.
What exactly does this mean? The NSA failed to delete files? So it was okay for the collection method, okay for the NSA to have them, but not okay that the NSA failed to delete them when ordered so? The only violation here seems to be that they failed delete files when ordered to do by a court. No information on what data was collected or how, or if that data was collected illeally.
In addition, a May 2012 internal NSA audit counted 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications.
The NSA is investigating itself looking for illegal action. It discovered over two thousand "incidents". These are most likely accidents (such as the 202/20 area code mishap) or agents pushing the rules or end up violating laws without knowing it.
Why isn't Congress holding talks about this "so called illegal activities"?