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Executive Order 12333 requires the NSA to report intelligence activities they have reason to believe may be unlawful or contrary to Executive Order or Presidential Directive to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board. The newly released NSA oversight reports span over a decade and include hundreds of pages of combined annual reports for 2007-2010, and quarterly reports from 2001-2013. The NSA released the reports in response to Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union. They document over a decade of accidental over-collection and intentional misuse of intelligence databases, including times when the systems are misused to target family members or partners.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014 (All day)
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