MAKE NO MISTAKE

The secret District Court which monitors the National Security Agency's surveillance program found that NSA overstepped its authority under the Patriot Act.  The Court said that NSA acquires valuable information through its collection procedures, but not without "substantial intrusions on Fourth Amendment protected interests".  NSA admitted that the mistaken collection of domestic data, including e-mails and other Internet activity of Americans, totaled 58,000 a year over a 3-year period.

That's about 175,000 admitted "mistakes", 175,000 times NSA acted unconstitutionally and violated our inalienable rights to privacy and to live our lives free of an overbearing, prying government.  

Of course, each time NSA made a mistake it failed to see it was making a mistake...that's another 175,000 mistakes. 

Or it did realize it was making a mistake and did nothing about it...that's another 175,000 mistakes. 

Or it did do something about it, but that something didn't work...that's another 175,000 mistakes.

Of course, one thing we know for sure is that NSA is not making a mistake as to the number of mistakes it made.  We can feel confident it was "only" 175,000.  Whew!

NSA wouldn't make the mistake of lying to us, would it?