Are you saying that the NSA has a different definition of wittingly than the standard definition of wittingly? If you have a bug placed on someone's purse and

Are you saying that the NSA has a different definition of wittingly than the standard definition of wittingly? If you have a bug placed on someone's purse and they talk to others, you are wittingly surveilling them. Unwittingly would imply it was not foreseen that others would be spied on (e.g. placing a wiretap on the wrong phone number).