Senator makes twelve LoveINT case details public [pdf]
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So case 1. Misconduct happened in 2004 when an automated system blocked him from searching for information on his own telehpone number. Only came to light in 2011, 7 years later. Either nobody checks these automated blocks or they are not even logged. Retired, DoJ declined prosecution, and the internal review apparently didn't manage to order any disciplinary action within a year.
Case number 2. Retired without disciplinary or legal action, referral to DoJ was merely discussed. Again, investigation only began two years later based on self reporting.
Case number 3. The legal arithmetic yields foreign for foreign national + US citizen. Any interaction with foreign nationals will render all of that communication fully recordable and accessible by anyone, without apparently any meaningful audits. Another self report.
Case number 4. Only came to light because the victim had both (1) suspicion and (2) access to government officials with the right position in the chain of command.
Case number 5. Misconduct spans two years.
Case number 6. Another polygraph self-report.
I don't even want to read any further. There seem to be no audit systems at all in place. The only system in place is the one that, hilariously, self-selects for terrible employees: the polygraph. Smokes and mirrors from the 20th century. And this is just the ultra high level view, the tidbits that make it to senators.
So what kind of search and archiving power do the NSA systems have here? All phone conversations translated into searchable text?