Friday, August 23, 2013

NSA report reveals some agents abused power, while Obama says improvements needed


Some of the National Security Agency's employees and contractors overstepped their authority and deliberately spied on Americans sporadically throughout the past decade, according to Bloomberg. The news undermines the NSA's repeated assertions that it doesn't target people in the US unless they are part of a foreign terror investigation, and that it hasn't willfully invaded privacy. The findings are said to come from a classified report by the inspector general for the NSA, an independent watchdog that monitors the agency's practices. But the alleged abuses were reportedly few and far between: "one case per year" of "intentionally inappropriate actions" using NSA surveillance programs, as Bloomberg characterizes the comments of one US...


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