NSA divulging names.

Find it here

May 2 issue - The National Security Agency is not supposed to target Americans; when a U.S. citizen's name comes up in an NSA "intercept," the agency routinely minimizes dissemination of the info by masking the name before it distributes the report to other U.S. agencies. But it's now clear the agency disseminates thousands of U.S. names. U.N. ambassador nominee John Bolton told a Senate confirmation hearing he had requested that U.S. names be unmasked from NSA intercepts on a handful of occasions; the State Department said he had made 10 such requests since 2001, and that the department as a whole had made 400 similar requests over the same period. But evidence is emerging that NSA regularly supplies uncensored intercepts, including named Americans, to other agencies far more often than even many top intel officials knew.

I don't know what to make of this, but I don't like it.

I'd put more here, but the story itself is pretty short, so I didn't want to post the whole story here. I do find it very disturbing that the NSA is now giving up names, something that they haven't done in the past, at least as far as the printed story notes. Scares me though.