Mike Luckovich is gonna piss off all the NSA supporters/Snowden haters here

[ConservativeDemocrat]

108. So the big "illegality"....

...is that sometimes when bugging foreign networks, US citizens would be on both ends of the conversation, making it technically illegal to record - but the NSA couldn't know that was the case until they recorded it. A sort of chicken and egg problem.

Also, sometimes when executing warrants, they made typos in searches.

I'm sorry, but if anything, this grand "revelation" is the exception that proves the rule. These are trivial mistakes of human error, a tiny handful of people who were chastised for not following procedure, and a couple of exceedingly minor technical glitches.

Essentially, you're trying to argue that we shouldn't have traffic cops because they're not always 150% perfect in their own driving habits; they might be going 1 mile over the speed limit when not going after speeders. OMG!!! They're BREAKING THE LAW!!!! And the grand total of the entire agency amounted to less than 3000 errors over the course of two years.

It appears that the courts demanded that the problems be addressed as best as possible, but otherwise see this as an acceptable best effort. And the only reason you even know about it at all is because they came clean.

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