The NSA listed several safeguards to prevent improper surveillance...

The NSA listed several safeguards to prevent improper surveillance of individuals, in an NSA Director of Civil Liberties and Privacy Office report released Tuesday (http://1.usa.gov/1oO6I6v). NSA employees whose training is incomplete or outdated aren’t allowed to use targeted surveillance systems and such surveillance must fall under the requirements in the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, it said. An NSA senior analyst or supervisor must review all targeting requests before they take place, it said. Senior officers must review data recovered by such targeting to verify that the data contains “foreign intelligence on foreign targets,” said the report. If an individual is mistakenly targeted, those involved in the surveillance must end operations; if the mistaken individual is a U.S. citizen, all collected data must be removed from NSA systems, it said. Initial collection and related decisions are “auditable,” it said.