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NSA said in a statement Friday that there have been "very rare" instances of willful violations of any kind in the past decade, and none have violated key surve
by mehwoot 13y ago
NSA said in a statement Friday that there have been "very rare" instances of willful violations of any kind in the past decade, and none have violated key surveillance laws.
So there have been willful violations, but they didn't violate key surveillance laws? How does that work?
- yk 13y agoThere are important surveillance laws, those that give the NSA power, and less important ones.
- anologwintermut 13y agoSame way a cop who murder's someone in the line of duty doesn't mean the department murdered someone. That part makes sense. The question(as with cops), is what happened to the people who did violate the rules? It's unlikely they were fired or prosecuted, hopefully they were demoted and lost access to the system. NSA is loath to fire people(and likely revoke their clearance if it's for cause) with serious classified knowledge since getting a comparable paying job with a revoked clearance and a large gap on your resume would be very hard. The worry is they would simply sell knowledge to a foreign government.
- fixxer 13y agoIt doesn't. I could go into a long explanation as to why, but basically it is like this: they're assholes and they interpret the law as they see fit. This is the beauty of phrases like "in the interests of national security".