The intelligence agency “does not always follow” the rules in this area, denounces a new report.
Le Monde
Nine years after the revelations of Edward Snowden on the excesses of the US Security Agency (NSA), the Comptroller General of this intelligence service denounces, in a report published Monday 31 January and Surveyed by CNN , failures to the law and the own procedures of The agency.
Critics, contained in a report published twice a year, remain very measured, and only concern NSA’s surveillance practices conducted in the United States and not abroad. The law authorizes the Agency to collect information on US citizens if “Research has reasonable chances of collecting information related to foreign subjects”, but how this text is used “raises a number of questions “, Note the document.
Insufficient doors
The investigators found that in some cases, the “selectors” (e-mail address, name, telephone number, Internet Protocol address) belonging to American citizens had entered the search system “without the procedures of The NSA or the rules of law “are followed. The history of selectors was not always recorded, as the internal procedures, and the intelligence agency have also not put in place automatic safeguards to prevent some research on American citizens. to be treated, as it should have done, according to its internal rules.