Mistakes Were Made

Nearly 3,000 violations of Americans’ privacy, mentioned in the National Security Agency’s internal audit recently leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden, weren’t “willful” and are results of mistakes by employees, the agency claimed.

The NSA's director of compliance, John DeLong, has held a conference call with reporters Friday as the agency has made the most direct effort to counter concern over its spying activities since its classified documents began appearing in the press.

“NSA has a zero tolerance policy for willful misconduct,” DeLong is cited as saying by the Wall Street Journal. “None of the incidents that were in the document released were willful.”

  RT

Apparently the NSA has 100% tolerance for a program that allows for so many violations.

Improper granting of access to a sensitive database was also among the breaches documented in the internal audit.

That’s what I’m talking about.

The audit report said such violations were “largely unpreventable,” attributing the wave of "roamer" incidents to an increase in Chinese citizens visiting their American friends for Chinese New Year celebrations.

Well, I wish I could think of something clever to say, because I sense a great clever-saying opportunity there, but I got nothing.

However, he admitted that there was “a couple” of willful privacy violations during the past 10 years, but didn’t provide any details of those incidents.

”A couple.”

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.