More ilegal use of the NSA Data base

The office of the inspector general published a report listing a number of cases where NSA employees used the dragnet approach of the NSA's database to fish for the personal information of former lovers, potential lovers, etc.  (See: NSA Office of the Inspector General) This is another example of how the information can be abused, but it is also an example of how supporters of the NSA can make a case that only trivial infringements of the law have taken place.

Given the examples of the Attorney General's perjury, the IRSs witch hunts, and the stonewalling of information concerning Lybia, would the Inspector general have written about more egregious cases? Or would these have been put under a blanket of secrecy as well?
Leon