NSA report casts little light on civil liberties

The National Security Agency released a report attempting to outline the privacy and civil liberty protections that go into the collections of signal intelligence under authority from a decades-old executive order, known as 12333. The report, from the NSA Civil Liberties and Privacy Office, casts little new information, and the NSA admits its protections are limited because of the nature of its work. "Because NSA has a national security mission, the principles of transparency and individual participation are not implemented in the same manner they are in organization with a more public facing mission," the report states.