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Why bother with boyfriend-vetting sites like ReportYourEx.com when you’ve got the ginormous spying resources of the NSA at your fingertips?
That seems to have been the thinking of at least one intelligence worker with the US National Security Agency, who, an NSA letter suggests, regularly tapped the agency’s now-infamous phone-data collection program to screen people she met at cocktail parties and the like.
The overseas staffer “tasked the telephone number of her foreign-national boyfriend and other foreign nationals and…reviewed the resultant collection,” the letter reads, adding later: “The subject asserted that it was her practice to enter foreign national phone numbers she obtained in social settings into the [NSA] system to ensure that she was not talking to ‘shady characters.'”
These intriguing, fill-in-the-rest-of-the-narrative-as-you-see-fit details come in a just-published letter from NSA Inspector General George Ellard to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In August, Grassley asked Ellard to provide details… [Read more]
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