The NSA Has A Word For When Analysts Abuse Their Power To Spy On A Love Interest

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Here's just another fascinating/disturbing fact about the NSA.

From time to time, employees have been known to abuse their power and spy on lovers, according to Siobhan Gorman at WSJ.

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.