The NSA on Christmas Eve day 2014 released twelve years of internal oversight reports documenting abusive and improper practices by agency employees.
By Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept | Screendump from The Intercept
The heavily redacted reports to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board found that NSA employees repeatedly engaged in unauthorized surveillance of communications by American citizens, failed to follow legal guidelines regarding the retention of private information, and shared data with unauthorized recipients.