Posted on 01/19/2018 8:02:54 PM PST by grey_whiskers
The agency tells a federal judge that it is investigating and 'sincerely regrets its failure.'
The National Security Agency destroyed surveillance data it pledged to preserve in connection with pending lawsuits and apparently never took some of the steps it told a federal court it had taken to make sure the information wasn’t destroyed, according to recent court filings.
Word of the NSA’s foul-up is emerging just as Congress has extended for six years the legal authority the agency uses for much of its surveillance work conducted through U.S. internet providers and tech firms. President Donald Trump signed that measure into law Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
It’s like the end of the first Bourne movie where they think they can just pull the plug on their pet covert project.
Erased my butt. They get the data or they get the pen. Move it.
What the ever loving ***K. I am so pissed off right now. At My Government.
Very interesting that Pollutico (good name!) got a couple of things right lately. They’re seeing which side of the bread is buttered and it ain’t the left side?
“Dat wuz some nice data youse had dere. Too bad it got...uh...’lost.’”
spoliation of evidence is the intentional or negligent withholding, hiding, alteration or destruction of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding.
A judge will typically instruct the jury to weigh spoliation heavily in determining outcomes — meaning it’s very bad for whoever did the spoliation.
Judges could on their own declare mistrial or automatic civil penalties based on the severity of spoliation.
Now, on these FOI suites the plaintiff is suing for the information. If it’s spoliated ... no penalties are involved and no criminal referrals. That’s why this shit happens. No punishment. Hell, the person who takes the blame will traditionally get a promotion.
If we don’t see the American royalty in orange jumpsuits after all this is laid bare, we will know that all this talk about all being equal under the law is nothing more than legal BS.
Were I the judge, I would jail both the NSA person in court, and their lawyer, for contempt of court; until ALL records were produced.
American KGB.
NSA=GOOGLE
I’m afraid you’re right.
Ping !
If they say something was accidentally deleted, it is a lie. If they say something was deleted, it is a lie.
Yep that is where its at
Which body part are you thinking the pen should be stuck into?
Yeah, I like this one too. It’s like the FISA self-reported violations, the erasures were during the 44 admin. And this comes out at an interesting time, is Politico trying to get ahead of the wave?
That better?
I would think maybe a five year sentence for destroying information. A contempt of court charge. something!
I was inspired by the juxtaposition on the page of a photo of Barney Frank waving a pen around, followed a few comments later by your "give them the pen" comment. :-)
When I see an image of Barney Frank I almost get physically ill.
Does that make me a bad person?
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