Who’s Watching the Watchmen? NSA Employees Caught Spying on Partners

Time reports:

Whenever they’re not combing through troves of metadata snatched from fiber optic cables across the globe, National Security Agency analysts are apparently tapping the phones of their significant others and keeping tabs on their love interests, or “loveint” in NSA speak.

In a letter posted to Senator Charles Grassley on Sept. 11, the NSA’s Inspector General George Ellard provided a dozen “substantial instances” when agency employees were caught gathering intelligence on spouses, partners or flames.

Big Brother.