30.09.2013 - 17:08 [ Techdirt ]

If It Took Seven Years And An Employee Confession To Reveal Intentional NSA Abuse, How Can NSA Say It Knows All Abuses?

Given that, you‘d assume those twelve cases of intentional (and at times flagrant) abuse of the system, often to spy on „love interests“ would have been caught by those audits. But no. By our count, only three out of the twelve were caught by audits. And four of the revelations appear to have been self-reported. And one of the abuses (one of the self-reported ones) happened seven years before the confession.