NSA broke its own rules to spy on Americans, new IG report finds
The National Security Agency (NSA) didn’t follow some of its own required procedures meant to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens, a new report by the NSA’s Inspector General revealed Monday.
In its semi-annual report to Congress, the Office of the Inspector General for the NSA found failures in the agency’s procedures under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA).
Section 702 of FISA describes how U.S. intelligence agencies may conduct warrantless surveillance of the communications of suspicious non-citizens on foreign soil. The section also describes how intelligence officials may access the sensitive information and communications of U.S. persons (USPs), if there is probable cause they are working for or in contact with suspicious non-citizens.
The inspector general’s report said evaluation efforts “revealed several issues that, if not addressed, have the potential to impact the effectiveness of the Agency’s internal controls used to protect the civil liberties and privacy rights of USPs.”
The report said investigators found NSA queries for U.S. person “selectors” — the agency’s term or FISA search terms — that did not follow Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)-approved procedures.
“While NSA has implemented both preventative and detective controls, the Agency has not completed the development of a preventative system control that performs pre-query validation to notify analysts of potential
noncompliance with NSA query procedures or policy problems prior to query execution,” the report said.
The report further discovered the NSA did not always document USP selector information on its FISA search tools.
“The lack of consistency limited the ability to fully and accurately search the
module’s contents,” the report said. “Furthermore, data standards were not fully addressed in NSA’s tool, and the tool lacked standard operating procedures that were accessible to analysts with access to the tool.”
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OIG is hardly credible - DS attack?