Yet more evidence of inadequate oversight of the intelligence-industrial complex. And no, the fact that it only happens once in a while is not a comfort: there should be no way for it to happen at all.
NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests (WSJ.com)
National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.
The practice isn’t frequent — one official estimated a handful of cases in the last decade — but it’s common enough to garner its own spycraft label: LOVEINT.