The NSA admits to intentionally violating the law in some cases

  America’s Watchtower previously covered this story about the NSA admitting to thousands of privacy violations in an internal investigation, now the NSA is admitting that of those violations some of them were intentional.

  Over the past decade, very rare instances of willful violations of NSA’s authorities have been found

  The NSA, and most members on the left and a few on the right, defended the thousands of abuses by stating that because the agency is data-mining millions of Americans thousands of violations really isn’t all that bad. They are now defending these willful violations as no big deal because out of the thousands of violations only a small minority of them were done on purpose.

  Dianne Feinstein is now calling for an investigation into these violations, but even as she does so she is defending the NSA along the lines stated above:

Any case of noncompliance is unacceptable, but these small numbers of cases do not change my view that NSA takes significant care to prevent any abuses and that there is a substantial oversight system in place

  Of course because we are relying on the results in which a seemingly corrupt agency was tasked with investigating itself we cannot be sure how accurate these numbers are in the first place. I would say that when an agency is tasked with investigating itself its first natural tendency would be to protect and insulate itself from these violations by downplaying the breadth of the scandal, so these numbers cannot be trusted and are most likely much higher.

  Now that the NSA has admitted to willfully breaking the law in some cases, and with nobody as yet having been held accountable, how can anyone trust the NSA at this point?