"we have to remember that the NSA is an intelligence agency that (while completely screwed up in the head) does has the best interests of the US at heart."
You're joking, right? The NSA is now a conglomeration of profit-driven corporate interests (over 70% of intelligence expenditures now go to the private sector), who lobby incessantly for a larger share of our taxes. Their mission is now to Collect Everything -- this way those in a position of power (Gen. Alexander, for example... or the President) can blackmail ANYONE... if all of our communications are hoovered up, it is no problem (as Snowden pointed out) for an analyst to construct an incriminating profile of ANYONE.
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Response to: Internet Zen Master on Jul 26th, 2013 @ 10:00am
"we have to remember that the NSA is an intelligence agency that (while completely screwed up in the head) does has the best interests of the US at heart."
You're joking, right? The NSA is now a conglomeration of profit-driven corporate interests (over 70% of intelligence expenditures now go to the private sector), who lobby incessantly for a larger share of our taxes. Their mission is now to Collect Everything -- this way those in a position of power (Gen. Alexander, for example... or the President) can blackmail ANYONE... if all of our communications are hoovered up, it is no problem (as Snowden pointed out) for an analyst to construct an incriminating profile of ANYONE.