thousands of americans. so in one specific case, the secret surveillance court that oversees the nsa only learned about a new collection method after it had been operating for months. in another example, a programming error led to a collection of calls placed from washington, d.c. after mixing up the number with egypt s international dialing code which is 2-0. another operation mixed together american and foreign e-mails. agents were also directed to remove certain details in their reports to the justice department. an official telling it the post because it s a human-run operation, there will be errors adding the number of violations is quite small in relative terms. the rnc will vote this morning on a resolution to boycott debates hosted by cnn and nbc if the networks go ahead with the planned projects on hillary clinton. it echoes chairman reince priebus s claims the programs are tantamount to political ads for the former secretary of state ahead of a potential run