Lawmakers call for more NSA oversight after audit [UPDATE] Army Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency, testifies during a House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on NSA programs designed to protect Americans, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 18, 2013. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Sen. Patrick Leahy said he is concerned Washington lawmakers were not told of an internal audit saying the National Security Agency violated privacy rules. An internal audit said the NSA broke privacy rules protecting communications on U.S. soil 2,776 times in one year and "thousands of times each year since 2008," The Washington Post reported Friday. "I will continue to demand honest and forthright answers from the intelligence community," Sen. Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Friday, adding his committee will hold another hearing on the Post's revelations. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Hose Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., were among lawmakers calling for more oversight and hearings, CNN reported Friday. The audit, leaked to the newspaper by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden earlier this summer, cited 2,776 incidents in the previous 12 months of unauthorized gathering, storage, contact or sharing of legally protected communications, the newspaper said. The most serious incidents in the 12 months included a defiance of a court order and unauthorized use of data of about more than 3,000 U.S. citizens and green-card holders, said the Post, which accompanied its article with some of the documents it cited. Another NSA statement, released Thursday, said its activities are "continually audited and overseen, internally and externally. When NSA makes a mistake in carrying out its foreign intelligence mission, the agency reports the issue internally and to federal overseers, and aggressively gets to the bottom of it.