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Provide much information, but heres what we do know, "the washington post" looked at the months worth of the nsa documents and found that there were 2,776 incidents of unauthorized or illegal oversight. most of which were unintentional, in other words, they made mistakes, as you said, there was human error. for instance, they plugged in the wrong area code. so they thought that they were overseeing or listening in on a call to egypt but, in fact, it was a 202 area code which was washington, d.c....

Authority thousands of times since 2008 when congress gave it widespread power to keep tabs on overseas phone calls and e-mails. among the reported missteps, intercepting a number of calls in washington, d.c., when a computer system overtook 202 area code for egypts dialling code 20. they collected data without getting the okay of a spy court. they responded saying they encourage their staff to come forward when the mistakes happened. >> as for the man who gave the documents to "the washington p...

Days after president obama vowed to protect your privacy rights and make national security surveillance more transparent, theres a new report that is raising fresh concerns. documents leaked by edward snowden and published in the "washington post" show the agency has overstepped its authority thousands of times. often, the unauthorized harvesting of phone calls and e-mails has been accidental, like confusing the area code for washington, d.c., with the area code for a country, a country code in ...

Incidents involved surveillance of americans and foreign intelligence targets on u.s. soil in ways that violate the programs rules. of those incidents, "the post" report most were unintended and many involved failures of due diligence or violations of standard operating procedure such as when an area code mixup caused the nsa to intercept a large number of calls from washington, d.c., instead of egypt. the nsa response was quick. overnight the agency released a poignant statement. "nsas foreign ...

Area code was mistaken to the country code for egypt. in 2012 more than 2700 incidence of unauthorized collection as well as distribution of what is normally legally protected communications. the articles reporter saying there were a multitude of mistakes made. >> searching on the wrong names or searching on u.s. persons improperly or searching on people who they have no reasonable suspicion or length to terrorist groups. >> in a statement the nsa said it tries to identify problems and in part t...

Their responsibilities. >> kelly: well be following this story and lot longer. thank you, sir. >> heather: another story were following, growing fallout over the controversial nsa surveillance programs. house narrowly defeating a bill this week that would have ended the program by slashing funding. lawmakers are speaking out about privacy concerns and the vote. peter doocy reports from washington. >> the presidents privacy policy is not accessible to members of his own party. weve heard from sev...

The mob. do you think he ole be convicted of killing 19 people? >> absolute will. right now hes doing damage control. its a blow to his ego, and i really feel that hes probably going to testify and probably redeem himself in a strange way, but when you kill children and do the things that he did, i mean, i said to other tv personalities, this guy wouldnt have lasted five minutes in new york. gotti would have put two in his bonnet and dropped him off in the next area code. >> thats colorful, sal....

>> on my back ive got my cross guy watching my back every day is how i look at it. >> a lot of what we see represents neighborhoods, gang membership, or other affiliations. >> why did you get a swastika on your forehead? >> it doesnt mean im a racist type person. its just prison is a lot of political stuff. why im in here, its either over here or youre over here. im right with my race, if thats what you could say, the idea of my race. its something else. >> ten swirls with three dots in the cent...

Possibly then bounce against that data set are numbers themes. >> there are no names and no addresses affiliated with these phone numbers. >> are there are not, seurb. >> sir. >> just phone numbers. >> twhasee righthats right. an analyst will determine whether there is a describable documentation, must be written, that there is a suspicion that this is connect towed a terrorist plot and there is a us nexus. they would make a further check to determine whether it is possible to discern that this ...

As you know, senator, every time we do that, its auditable by the committees, by the justice department, by the court and by the administration. we get oversight from everybody. >> im over my time. heres the point. if you knew that a suspect had made a call into area code 312, the city of chicago, it certainly defies logic you need to collect all of the telephone calls made in the 312 area code on the chance one might be on the other end of the phone. if you have a suspected -- suspected contact...