In April 2009, officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in large-scale overcollection of domestic communications in excess of the federal intelligence court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified [REF].
In August 2012, The New York Times published short documentaries by independent filmmakers entitled The Program,[REF] based on interviews with a whistleblower named William Binney.