Judge: “NSA exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously”

Ars Technica writes Judge: “NSA exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously” "Yet another Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge has blasted United States intelligence officials for disregarding the court’s guidelines for domestic surveillance of American e-mail metadata traffic, a program that ran for around a decade before ending in 2011.

‘[National Security Agency’s] record of compliance with these rules has been poor,’ wrote Judge John D. Bates in a 117-page opinion (PDF) whose date was redacted. The opinion is just one of a series of documents released and declassified late Monday evening by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)."