NSA Over-surveillance
Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans.
Given all we learned from Edward Snowden, this feels like a minor coda. There’s nothing really interesting in the IG document, which is heavily redacted.
News story.
EDITED TO ADD (11/14): Non-paywalled copy of the Bloomberg link.
Rot • November 11, 2022 11:40 AM
I don’t see the value in further legitimizing the notion that the problem with NSA surveillance is targeting U.S. persons in search queries as opposed to them collecting mass amounts of data on U.S. persons in the first place.