The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.
NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history... The real problem is that they're using these capabilities to make us vulnerable.
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.
The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
I am concerned that the vague guidelines and policies used by the NSA for intelligence collection and sharing, in conjunction with elusive direction from the Administration, have led to intelligence being collected on sitting members of Congress for political purposes.
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
Once you're in a network, you can do a whole bunch of things to that network. It's just that NSA doesn't have the authority to do that.