CULTURE OF ABUSE: NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests. “National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said. 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.” I’ll bet further inquiry would revise the frequency estimate up significantly.