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| And Edward Snowden is a traitor for starting the fuss that leads to these revelations? |
Top officials have repeatedly
reassured lawmakers and the public that the National Security Agency phone-records program has been
carefully executed under oversight from the secret national security court.
Now we learn that the NSA for years conducted searches of its phone-records
database that violated privacy protections by not meeting a court-ordered
standard. The violations
continued until a judge ordered an overhaul of the program in 2009.
Officials said the violations were inadvertent, because
NSA officials didn’t understand their own phone-records collection program.
