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Saturday, June 08, 2013

Officials: NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans

By Michael Isikoff, National Investigative Correspondent for NBC News takes the government line.

"Nothing to see here folks, move along."

The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism, requiring Justice Department officials to report the errors to a secret national security court and destroy the data, according to two former U.S. intelligence officials.
You're going to see a lot of that "mistakenly" in reporting along with the overused word "unexpectedly."

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