Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant

[randome]

110. Read some of the other posts on this thread.

Do the words "inadvertently obtained" mean nothing to you? Read the examples I pointed out.

No law is perfect. Actually, no law prevents a thing. We make the laws and then we make rules and regulations to fill the gaps. The info in the OP is attempting to fill the gaps. It's bureaucratic-ese that fills every government -and most corporate- environments.

You can't have it both ways. You can't claim that the NSA is disregarding the regulations and then point to a regulation that attempts to clarify and pin down what they can and cannot do.

Because according to you, they don't pay attention to the regulations. Having worked as a federal employee for the Social Security Administration for 5 years, I am well aware of how complex the rules and regulations are. Maddeningly so.

If I wanted to, I could have approved just about anyone for retirement or disability insurance. But my files would be reviewed, documents re-examined.

I have no doubt the NSA has the same level of second level and third level checking on all their activities. The NSA, like most government agencies, is composed of people who just want to do their jobs and go home at the end of the day.

They really aren't much different from you or me. They don't get to work and think to themselves, "Who can I screw over today?"

I think a lot of you think of the NSA as composed of secret agents. The people who examine data are Analysts. They sit at desks and pour over material that has been shunted their way by lower level employees. They push buttons to run programs. They type up reports.

Actually, that's just guesswork on my part but I think it's more accurate than the image of them as 'spies'.

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