NSA Letter Discloses Employee Eavesdropping on Girlfriends, Spouses

A newly released letter from the National Security Agency inspector general Dr. George Ellard says employees have improperly eavesdropped on the phone calls of girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands, wives and spouses and engaged in other "intentional" abuses of their authority 12 times since 2003, NBC News reported. "What's clear about the instances of abuse is that these have nothing to do with terrorism," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "This is about individuals prying into the private lives of the people closest to them. It's an abuse of government data that should not be in the government's hands."

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