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NSA delivers a stocking full of errors.

by IndyRadio
The NSA finally came through with a long awaited declassification of quarterly reports submitted to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board. It took a lawsuit from the ACLU to get them, and they were quietly dumped on Christmas Eve. The entire 98MB trove is available, without the flaws of the original release, and with a security checksum.
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The NSA Christmas gift, a long delayed declassification as the result of a lawsuit by the ACLU is filled with errors. "Accidental" domestic spying is documented in numerous instances: nonetheless, these private phone calls by US citizens and business were widely shared with agencies around the world. The delivery of these documents is also severely flawed.

NSA claims: "... an array of technical and human-based checks attempt to identify and correct errors, some amount of which occur naturally in any large, complex system." https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/IntelligenceOversightBoard.shtml

But somehow they could not manage to correctly post a simple html list of links to these long awaited and heavily redacted reports that are required by law. Each of the links to second quarter reports on the NSA site actually points to the same file as the link for as the corresponding frist quarter report. So if you simply take the links they give, you will not get ANY reports for the second quarter of any year in the list.

I used wget to obtain them all by filename pattern, and would have attached them here, but compressed files are not allowed! So here are some of the Q2 reports. You'll eventually find a link for the compressed 98 MB archive on the IndyRadio site.

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