NSA reveals spying on Americans with no connection to terrorism
- 08/21/13 03:43 PM
The Obama's administration's top intelligence official on Wednesday revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) improperly spied on people in the United States with no connection to terrorism beginning in 2008.
Officials said the surveillance was inadvertent, and that the agency ended it in 2011.
The NSA collected as many as many as 56,000 emails from Americans before the mistake was identified.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper will declassify documents detailing the error on Wednesday afternoon.
"This is not an egregious overreaching by a greedy agency seeking to spy on Americans," a senior intelligence official said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters. "This is a technological problem that resulted in an inadvertent collection of a relatively small number of U.S. person communications."
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