enhanced_deficit
09-28-2013, 12:53 AM
Freedom keeps on marching:
Sep 26, 2013
NSA’s love affair: employees spied on girlfriends, spouses, husbands, lovers (http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_09_27/NSA-s-love-affair-employees-spied-on-girlfriends-spouses-husbands-lovers-4493/?from=menu)
http://m.ruvr.ru/2013/09/27/1191657039/7h_50871400.jpgKeith Keith Alexander
The National Security Agency's employees misused the agency's surveillance power and eavesdropped on the phone calls of girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives and spouses and engaged in other "intentional" abuses of their authority on 12 occasions since 2003, according to a newly released letter by the agency’s inspector general.
According to a letter by NSA inspector (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/A_U.S.%20news/US-news-PDFs/NSA-Surveillance-09-11-13-response.pdf) general Dr. George Ellard, the NSA employees at times have been caught in collecting intelligence on love interests. But until now, the specific examples and the frequency of such cases have never been disclosed by the NSA.
The practice is known as LOVEINT. Spy agencies often refer to their various types of intelligence collection with the suffix of 'INT,' such as 'SIGINT' for collecting signals intelligence, or communications; and 'HUMINT' for human intelligence, or spying, the WSJ reports.
The LOVEINT violations involved overseas communications, officials said, such as spying on a partner or spouse.
In one case, detailed by the NSA's watchdog, a civilian intelligence employee assigned overseas was found to have used the NSA's signals intelligence collection system to listen to the phone conversations on nine phone numbers belonging to foreign women from 1998 to 2003 without any valid reason, the CNN reports.
The case began because a woman, a foreign national employed by the US government, told another employee she suspected the man with whom she was in a sexual relationship was listening to her calls. The employee who misused the NSA's systems also collected the communications of a US resident on two occasions, a move that requires a court warrant.
In each instance of the misusing the power, an employee was punished either with an administrative action or termination. But, in many cases employees who intentionally abused the NSA's spying systems resigned before they could be punished.
Too tempting? NSA watchdog details how officials spied on love ... (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/27/too-tempting-nsa-details-how-officials-spied-on-love-interests/)
Fox News-2 hours ago
The world learned in early June about the National Security Agency's stunning capability to spy on just about anyone it wants to. Now we're ...
Sep 26, 2013
NSA’s love affair: employees spied on girlfriends, spouses, husbands, lovers (http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_09_27/NSA-s-love-affair-employees-spied-on-girlfriends-spouses-husbands-lovers-4493/?from=menu)
http://m.ruvr.ru/2013/09/27/1191657039/7h_50871400.jpgKeith Keith Alexander
The National Security Agency's employees misused the agency's surveillance power and eavesdropped on the phone calls of girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives and spouses and engaged in other "intentional" abuses of their authority on 12 occasions since 2003, according to a newly released letter by the agency’s inspector general.
According to a letter by NSA inspector (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/A_U.S.%20news/US-news-PDFs/NSA-Surveillance-09-11-13-response.pdf) general Dr. George Ellard, the NSA employees at times have been caught in collecting intelligence on love interests. But until now, the specific examples and the frequency of such cases have never been disclosed by the NSA.
The practice is known as LOVEINT. Spy agencies often refer to their various types of intelligence collection with the suffix of 'INT,' such as 'SIGINT' for collecting signals intelligence, or communications; and 'HUMINT' for human intelligence, or spying, the WSJ reports.
The LOVEINT violations involved overseas communications, officials said, such as spying on a partner or spouse.
In one case, detailed by the NSA's watchdog, a civilian intelligence employee assigned overseas was found to have used the NSA's signals intelligence collection system to listen to the phone conversations on nine phone numbers belonging to foreign women from 1998 to 2003 without any valid reason, the CNN reports.
The case began because a woman, a foreign national employed by the US government, told another employee she suspected the man with whom she was in a sexual relationship was listening to her calls. The employee who misused the NSA's systems also collected the communications of a US resident on two occasions, a move that requires a court warrant.
In each instance of the misusing the power, an employee was punished either with an administrative action or termination. But, in many cases employees who intentionally abused the NSA's spying systems resigned before they could be punished.
Too tempting? NSA watchdog details how officials spied on love ... (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/27/too-tempting-nsa-details-how-officials-spied-on-love-interests/)
Fox News-2 hours ago
The world learned in early June about the National Security Agency's stunning capability to spy on just about anyone it wants to. Now we're ...