NSA Used Its Power to Spy on Ex-Wives and LoversMadison Ruppert This comes in the wake of the realization that the agencys employees were guilty of multiple willful violations of the NSAs surveillance authorities and the privacy rights of Americans. Just last week it was also revealed that the NSA breached privacy rules almost 3,000 times in a single year, making it officially impossible to deny that the NSA illegally spied on Americans. Its interesting to note that this latest news seems to cast doubt on the NSAs claim that the analysts guilty of the willful violations were actually just overzealous NSA employees or contractors who wanted to prevent a second attack along the lines of September 11, 2001. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the NSA told the committee about isolated cases of employees spying on loved ones that have occurred about once a year over the past 10 years, according to the Telegraph. The employees code named the practice LOVEINT, according to the Telegraph. The LOVEINT name is styled after the terms used for other types of intelligence gathering, like SIGINT (signals intelligence), GEOINT (geospatial intelligence), MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence), HUMINT (human intelligence), TECHINT (technical intelligence), etc. Still, Feinstein maintains that there is nothing wrong with the so-called oversight system of the NSA, even though the findings of the NSAs internal audit were kept from Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Clearly, 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, Feinstein maintained. When errors are identified, they are reported and corrected, she added. Unfortunately, as The Washington Post notes, this problem isnt limited to the NSA. There are plenty of cases in which local law enforcement officials have been accused of abusing their access to databases to acquire information about potential romantic interests, the Post reported. Officials who spoke to The Wall Street Journal claimed that the LOVINT violations only involved overseas communications and Feinstein made similar claims. She told the WSJ that the violations did not involve the personal information of Americans in most instances which means that it did in some and that shes seen no evidence that any of the violations involved the NSAs domestic surveillance infrastructure, according to the Post. While the NSA has claimed that the privacy violations were just employee mistakes, as more information comes out it is becoming increasingly clear that many of the violations were not mistakes at all. Id love to hear your opinion, take a look at your story tips and even your original writing if you would like to get it published. I am also available for interviews on radio, television or any other format. Please email me at Admin@EndtheLie.com Please support our work and help us start to pay contributors by doing your shopping through our Amazon link or check out some must-have products at our store. This article first appeared at End the Lie. Madison Ruppert is the Editor and Owner-Operator of the alternative news and analysis databaseEnd The Lie and has no affiliation with any NGO, political party, economic school, or other organization/cause. He is available for podcast and radio interviews. Madison also now has his own radio show on UCYTV Monday nights 7 PM 9 PM PT/10 PM 12 AM ET. Show page link here: http://UCY.TV/EndtheLie. If you have questions, comments, or corrections feel free to contact him at admin@EndtheLie.com linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 