Given that the documents were made public under a court order sought by the ACLU, it is quite certain that quasi-official public record publications such as the New York Times and Washington Post will have been notified as soon as they were posted. Whether those publications would publicize them beyond the NSA web pages is another matter, which might best be taken up with their editors.
I received notification in an email from Reason magazine.
That said, the reports do not appear to show systematic intentional violations of law or regulations. Nearly all of the errors in the two (2Q13 and 1Q12) that I have looked at appear to result from incomplete knowledge of the regulations, incomplete knowledge of the facts of a particular situation, or more or less random errors of execution
It would have been nice to know the final disposition of the case in which an analyst inquired into her husband's activities, but the reports at hand unfortunately do not appear to contain follow up information about incidents not completely resolved in a previous reporting period. It might be worth mentioning, though, that in similar cases reported in years past in the news media the usual outcome was termination of NSA employment for civilians and transfer of offending military personnel out of the NSA.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
