Recent findings have claimed that some NSA employees have used the Agency's programs for their own benefit--for stalking their exes. 

The National Security Agency has released a statement saying that there had been at least twelve cases of employees abusing the top-secret surveillance programs to spy on their significant others. 

NSA Inspector General George Ellard has said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee's Charles Grassley that there had been 12 counts of "intentional misuse" of the intelligence-gathering programs since in the last decade alon (since 2003).

Grassley had once requested the NSA Internal Watchdog to mae a report on the intentional abuse of the intelligence program, as the public had been growing increasingly concerned at the castness of the US government's spy programs. 

Everybody can recall how Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor, had brought to public light how the NSA utilizes far more internet and telephone data than popularly believed. The NSA had then been brought under intence criticism for an act that the publis deemed "too invasive." 

However, NSA's spy programs have been firmly defended by members of the US Congress, as they claimed that it is only a means to an end, and had been critical in defending against terrorist movements and attacks, but those who advocate privacy have commented that it had become too all-encompassing and prone to abuse. 

Among the abuses mentioned in Ellard's report were of an NSA employee who had tapped and listened to the phone calls of his lover, a foreign woman employed by the US government. Further investigations found that the man had used NSA databases to collect the phone numbers of nine foreign women, and the communications of a fellow American. 

The 12 cases has since been referred to the Department of Justice, with the violator either retired or resigned from their jobs before being faced with disciplinary actions.