Spying on the public by accident

Whoops.

The National Security Agency apparently didn’t mean to spy on law abiding Americans. They accidentally collected thousands of communications by Americans with no known connection to terrorism according to a report in USA Today.

I’m not sure what was going on. After Edward Snowden said the NSA was doing this, we were told it was an important part of protecting Americans. Now it is a mistake they apparently realized in 2011. Is anyone else confused?

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