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NSA Director, Congress and Monitoring

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the watching-for-the-man dept.

Thanks to Bruce Schneier for pointing out the testimony from NSA Director Michael Hayden, in which he talks about how the NSA worked pre-9/11 and post. And, as Bruce pointed out "...[he] tells Congress that they can best help him by going back to their constituents and finding out where the public wants to draw the line between liberty and safety."

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  1. Well... by Loki_1929 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ""...[he] tells Congress that they can best help him by going back to their constituents and finding out where the public wants to draw the line between liberty and safety." "

    Why don't you just intercept their constituents' phone calls, email, web traffic, faxes, pages, and all other forms of electronic communications, and then you'll know exactly what they want.

    Oh.. wait..

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    -- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
  2. ask the public by Dr.+Awktagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...[he] tells Congress that they can best help him by going back to their constituents and finding out where the public wants to draw the line between liberty and safety.

    Whoa, they have to ask Disney AND the oil industry? Unprecedented!

    (PS: It's a joke. Please don't tap my phone line.)