Katherine Mangu-Ward: Spies In Love

After a report in August revealed more than 3,000
violations of privacy rules by employees of the National Security
Agency (NSA) in a one-year period, NSA Chief Compliance Officer
John DeLong hurried to reassure reporters that only “a couple of”
those infractions were willful. Pressed to clarify about what
happened in those cases, writes Katherine Mangu-Ward, the NSA
admitted that it knew about several instances where employees were
using the agency’s incredible spying power to check in on the
communications of overseas love interests.

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