A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) revealed that the Obama administration had committed over 90 civil liberty violations through the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2009 to 2016. The Hill reported that the memos revealed that the government agencies improperly searched and disseminated information on American citizens without warrants.
For example, some NSA analysts had unmasked the names of American citizens within the intelligence community without the requisite redactions. Another instance revealed that an intelligence analyst ran a query on the same American citizen every workday from 2013 to 2014.
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