The "NSA Semiannual Report to Congress" published last January 31, 2022 by the National Security Agency Office of the Inspector General, covers the period 1 April to 30 September 2021 (this oversight operation is conducted pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, and in accordance with NSA/CSS Policy 1-60, the NSA/CSS Office of the Inspector General - OIG).
- "NSA's targeting distribution process contained critical control gaps, in that it did not have adequate controls implemented to monitor the accuracy and completeness of the full targeting distribution process"
- "As a result, we determined that NSA's RBT and targeting distribution deficiencies increase the likelihood both that NSA might inadvertently target selectors to locations that are prohibited by applicable NSA signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection authorities."