WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency said Thursday it is deleting call records after “irregularities” caused it to collect records it was not authorized to receive.
The agency released a statement saying it began deleting records in May after “analysts noted technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunications service providers.”
The records date back to 2015 and were obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The statement added that “the root cause of the problem has since been addressed” for future call record collecting.
In a written follow-up statement to The Associated Press, the NSA said it is “following a specific court-authorized process,” but technical irregularities resulted in the production of some call records that the NSA “was not authorized to receive.”
The NSA faced a legal battle surrounding its internet surveillance data collection program in 2017, when the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union could move forward.
How much do you want to bet that NO records pertaining to Clinton were deleted, and ALL records pertaining to Trump were.
Hmmmmm…deleted or “deleted”??
If’n you catch my drift.
Anyone know if NSA is required to announce this by law?
The NSA follows no rules, abides by no law. It’s an entirely unconstrained vacuum cleaner sucking up every speck of our data from every source. It periodically pretends to “do the right thing” by deleting a few things, but it’s all theater and all a distraction. If the NSA doesn’t have scads of evidence of Trump’s treasonous communications with Russia, then what the hell use is the NSA in the first place?
Hopefully our allies will have records also, which could be utilized in an investigation. That is, if they still talk to the US about such things,