Declassified Report Reveals NSA Broke Its Own Surveillance Rules on Unapproved Queries

A declassified report obtained by POGO reveals the NSA queried intelligence data using search terms not approved by the agency's general counsel and outside procedures authorized by the FISA court. The violations represent systemic compliance failures in the agency's querying practices, arriving as Congress debates Section 702 reauthorization with the April 20 expiration deadline 34 days away.