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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1189458" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>NSA Admits: Okay, Okay, There Have Been A Bunch Of Intentional Abuses, Including Spying On Love Interests - TechDirt</strong></p><p></p><p>So, this week, we wrote about the NSA quietly admitting that there had been <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130823/11171424296/more-confirmation-nsa-analysts-willfully-abused-surveillance-powers.shtml" target="_blank">intentional abuses</a> of its surveillance infrastructure, despite earlier claims by NSA boss Keith Alexander and various folks in Congress that there had been <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130817/02254824218/nsa-defenders-insist-their-lawbreaking-should-be-ignored-because-they-didnt-mean-it.shtml" target="_blank">absolutely no</a> "intentional" abuses. Late on Friday (of course) the NSA finally put out an official statement <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-admits-rare-willful-surveillance-violations-211422017.html" target="_blank">admitting to an average of one intentional abuser per year</a> over the past ten years. The AP is reporting that at least one of the abuses involved an NSA employee spying on a former spouse. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal suggests that spying on love interests happens <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/" target="_blank">somewhat more often</a>:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em> The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1189458, member: 1"] [B]NSA Admits: Okay, Okay, There Have Been A Bunch Of Intentional Abuses, Including Spying On Love Interests - TechDirt[/B] So, this week, we wrote about the NSA quietly admitting that there had been [URL='http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130823/11171424296/more-confirmation-nsa-analysts-willfully-abused-surveillance-powers.shtml']intentional abuses[/URL] of its surveillance infrastructure, despite earlier claims by NSA boss Keith Alexander and various folks in Congress that there had been [URL='http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130817/02254824218/nsa-defenders-insist-their-lawbreaking-should-be-ignored-because-they-didnt-mean-it.shtml']absolutely no[/URL] "intentional" abuses. Late on Friday (of course) the NSA finally put out an official statement [URL='http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-admits-rare-willful-surveillance-violations-211422017.html']admitting to an average of one intentional abuser per year[/URL] over the past ten years. The AP is reporting that at least one of the abuses involved an NSA employee spying on a former spouse. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal suggests that spying on love interests happens [URL='http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests/']somewhat more often[/URL]: [INDENT][I] The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT. [/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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