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NSA waits until Christmas Eve to reveal a decade's worth of its mistakes



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The National Security Agency went all out on a Christmas gift this year: a decade's worth of declassified documents on the unauthorized surveillance of Americans.


Turns out it's the NSA that sees you when you're sleeping, and knows when you're awake.



The documents were released Wednesday afternoon, in response to an ACLU lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. They cover the agency's activities from mid-2001 through early 2013 — and they are heavily redacted.


Even so, the reports detail numerous "errors" over the years as NSA analysts searched through its information databases and accessed the communications of Americans, which is prohibited. Read more...


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