Obama acknowledges NSA violations.
In compliance with a civil lawsuit, the United States government published a report admitting that it had improperly collected material; however, the agency attributes the incorrect disclosure to mismanagement and a typographical error.
247 - In a move that President Dilma Rousseff may welcome, the United States government released a report Monday night acknowledging that it had gone too far in its espionage scheme.
Prepared by the National Security Agency (NSA), the document admits to several violations before a US intelligence court and promises additional measures to prevent the errors from recurring, according to information from the AP news agency.
The NSA acknowledged that it had collected material inappropriately. On one occasion, the government stated that the agency's violations were caused by "mismanagement, lack of employee involvement, and lack of internal verification procedures, and not by bad faith." On another occasion, the NSA said it collected information incorrectly due to a typographical error.
The Obama administration released the document in compliance with an ongoing civil lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the government's collection of phone records, which the White House justifies as important in the fight against terrorism.