Thread: SOME NSA EMPLOYEES SPIED ON THEIR LOVE INTERESTS — HERE ARE THE DETAILS

i wonder if any of them ran a PI business on the side for divorce lawyers.....
SOME NSA EMPLOYEES SPIED ON THEIR LOVE INTERESTS — HERE ARE THE DETAILS

Aug. 24, 2013 7:30am
Oliver Darcy

The National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted some of their officers misused the agency’s massive spying powers to keep tabs on their love interests, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Friday night.

NSA employees reportedly dubbed the practice with its very own spy label: LOVEINT.

U.S. officials said some of the violations included overseas communications, but claimed the practice was “very rare,” according to the WSJ.

Officials reportedly said all employees involved were appropriately disciplined. The incidents were often self-reported, revealed while the officers took polygraph tests during routine security clearance renewals, according to the WSJ.

“NSA has zero tolerance for willful violations of the agency’s authorities,” the NSA said in a statement Friday.

The revelations come in the wake of learning this week that the NSA had violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions. NSA Chief Compliance Officer John DeLong had stressed earlier most violations were unintentional.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told the WSJ that the NSA admitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee policies were violated in a set of “isolated incidents.”

“Clearly, any case of noncompliance is unacceptable, but these small numbers of cases do not change my view that NSA takes significant care to prevent any abuses and that there is a substantial oversight system in place,” Feinstein told the WSJ. “When errors are identified, they are reported and corrected.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...ove-interests/

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Saturday, August 24, 2013

NSA Used Its Power to Spy on Ex-Wives and Lovers

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Madison Ruppert
Activist Post

National Security Agency (NSA) employees reportedly used the agency’s global surveillance network to spy on lovers and former spouses, casting further doubt on the government’s claims about the program.

This comes in the wake of the realization that the agency’s employees were guilty of multiple “willful violations” of the NSA’s surveillance authorities and the privacy rights of Americans.

Just last week it was also revealed that the NSA breached privacy rules almost 3,000 times in a single year, making it officially impossible to deny that the NSA illegally spied on Americans.

It’s interesting to note that this latest news seems to cast doubt on the NSA’s claim that the analysts guilty of the “willful violations” were actually just “overzealous NSA employees or contractors” who wanted to prevent a second attack along the lines of September 11, 2001.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the NSA told the committee about “isolated cases” of employees spying on loved ones that have occurred about once a year over the past 10 years, according to the Telegraph.

The employees code named the practice “LOVEINT,” according to the Telegraph.

The LOVEINT name is styled after the terms used for other types of intelligence gathering, like SIGINT (signals intelligence), GEOINT (geospatial intelligence), MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence), HUMINT (human intelligence), TECHINT (technical intelligence), etc.


Two unnamed U.S. officials said that one analyst was disciplined in the past for leveraging NSA resources to spy on a former spouse, according to the Associated Press.

Still, Feinstein maintains that there is nothing wrong with the so-called oversight system of the NSA, even though the findings of the NSA’s internal audit were kept from Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

“Clearly, any case of noncompliance is unacceptable, but these small numbers of cases do not change my view that NSA takes significant care to prevent any abuses and that there is a substantial oversight system in place,” Feinstein maintained.

“When errors are identified, they are reported and corrected,” she added.

Unfortunately, as The Washington Post notes, this problem isn’t limited to the NSA.

“There are plenty of cases in which local law enforcement officials have been accused of abusing their access to databases to acquire information about potential romantic interests,” the Post reported.

Officials who spoke to The Wall Street Journal claimed that the LOVINT violations only involved overseas communications and Feinstein made similar claims.

She told the WSJ that the violations did not involve the personal information of Americans “in most instances” – which means that it did in some – and that “she’s seen no evidence that any of the violations involved the NSA’s domestic surveillance infrastructure,” according to the Post.

While the NSA has claimed that the privacy violations were just “employee mistakes,” as more information comes out it is becoming increasingly clear that many of the violations were not mistakes at all.

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Remember that this is just the NSA, there has been little or no talk about private contractors such as Booz Allen, Raytheon, Boeing and myriads of others on what possible violations of law these private entities may be envolved with, what level of access they have to data of US Citizens and for what reasons. does the FISA standard apply to them? Whom has oversight within these companies on data security protocal? Does the NSA oversee these private entities? I shutter to think what will happen once that can of worms are opened.

YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND MAY HAVE A NUCLEAR DEVICE
Posted by Rodney Lee on Aug 26, 2013

I hear a lot of people complaining that the Obama Administration is leading us down a path where one day we will be living in a police state. I ask you this: What do you consider “a police state?” Does it mean residing a place where authorities are standing in your living room, watching everything you do and waiting to place you in shackles if you violate any new “thought police” statutes? Is it like the Old Soviet Union or the current North Korean regime? What? Follow Joe For America on Facebook! While you’re thinking about that, let me tell you where you live right now: You live in a country where the Federal government can (notice I didn’t say “does” or “might” or “will”) can listen to every phone call you make, read every email you send or receive and track your movements once you step outside your home. They can access your IRS information on how much you make, where you make it and your perceived intentions regarding tax-relation activity. Soon they will have all your medical records and can see what you’ve been treated for and what type of doctor you’ve been to. And they can do that without your permission… I’m not saying they are doing it. I’m merely pointing out that they can. And they now have been dragged kicking and screaming into admitting it in public, with the exception of a few lies in front of Congress by the head of the NSA, James Clapper (currently the Director of National Intelligence). My question to you is simple: What is a police state? obama magicIf for whatever reason, the Federal government decides you are someone of interest, they can, without any concern for your Fourth Amendment rights, investigate all forms of your communication, Facebook postings, Google searches, cell phone conversations, whatever. And if they hear the right buzzwords (they decide the buzzwords) they can do the same to your friends, relatives, enemies, acquaintances, Facebook pals, whoever. You know what I hear less and less of lately? That Snowden is a traitor. And for good reason. I’ve been told over and over again that the NSA doesn’t spy on Americans. Then they were, but they won’t. Then they would but they couldn’t. Then they did but they won’t anymore. Now they just do. This is about political power, not catching terrorists. Grow up. There is no time in this country’s history where the government has been given power and they didn’t abuse it. It’s the nature of power and this is no different. Need more? Snowden’s hot girlfriend The spy who loved me, then went to Russia with love. Hope he doesn’t.. die, another day -muah ha ha. Octopussy. A British newspaper, The Telegraph, is reporting that NSA staff has been using their technology designed to catch terrorists to spy on their lovers, past and present. Yes, there’s nothing like keeping a watchful eye and ear on your ex, just in case they’ve decided to set off that nuclear device they’ve been building in the spare bedroom. The folks who swear they won’t abuse their power or use it in any way to further their careers or help a politician or oppress a fellow American in any way, are keeping tabs on what their love interests are up to. Their phone calls, emails, Internet activity, searches and who knows what else. I’m serious – who knows what else? Raise your hand if you think they haven’t been downloading Snowden’s hot girlfriend’s every email, photo, conversation and who knows what else? I heard Dana Perino – someone I highly respect and admire – say that with all the intelligence they gather, the NSA is of course going to gather some information by mistake along the way. But this is not an innocent slip-up. This is the deliberate abuse of power and denial of civil liberties guaranteed under the Constitution to their victims and all of us. These weasels did not break the rules – they broke the law. Look them up. Seriously Until they are rooted out and held accountable the NSA should not be in charge of anything. The NSA is not about terrorism or spying, it is about gathering information for coercion, oppression and political extortion. Raise your hand if you think every bit of information on President Obama’s enemies and potential adversaries are not being organized for use by the usual suspects – Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Plouffe - all of ‘em. Go look up the Cloward–Piven strategy and get back to me if you don’t believe it. What is a police state? I just hope that Senator Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul haven’t searched anything online that can be used against them in 2016 because it will be. I hope none of their relatives, co-workers or friends have done any research or looked at any subject that will allow CNN, the NY Times, MSNBC, CBS, The Washington Post and all the others to scream the headline; “REPUBLICAN NOMINEE’S UNCLE GOOGLE’S TOPLESS ACTRESS !” Don’t worry; I’m getting to Hillary… "It matters this much" “It matters this much” I’m not exaggerating. It’s so easy now – before you had to sneak into or know somebody at the FBI willing to give you 900 confidential files of Republicans, and then explain how they got in your sitting room with your fingerprints on them. Or you had to be married to the President and the whole thing goes away – but still it was a lot tougher then. Now you just Instant Message your buddy at the NSA; they stop listening to their ex-girlfriend talking to that guy she met at the gas station long enough to upload enough info on anybody to find something that can be twisted into a scandal. Or maybe you need to intimidate, say, a Supreme Court Justice into rewriting ObamaCare so it somehow seems Constitutional?…”Just say it’s a tax or something. What can they do – you’re a frickin’ Supreme Court Judge for life, baby!”… Just being hypothetical there. clapper “too cute by half” ? um… yeah. Here’s what we know: Clapper lied to Congress, nothing happens The NSA says they have broken privacy “rules” 3,000 times in the past 12 months or so nothing happens Again, these are not rules; they are laws that were broken The law states these violations are felonies which call for up to $250,000 in fines and five years in prison for each violation No one has been charged This is what we know. Imagine what we don’t know? If this isn’t a police state, what is? Twenty words or less. Thanks.

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