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It's Time To Split Up NSA Between Spooks and Geeks
Hugh Pickens writes "Noah Shachtman writes in Wired that most of us know the National Security Agency as the supersecret spook shop that allegedly slurped up our email and phone calls after the September 11 attacks, but not so many know that the NSA is actually home to two different agencies under one roof: the signals-intelligence directorate, who can tap into any electronic communication, and the information-assurance directorate, the cybersecurity nerds who make sure our government's computers and telecommunications systems are hacker- and eavesdropper-free. 'The problem is, their goals are often in opposition,' writes Shachtman. 'One team wants to exploit software holes; the other wants to repair them.' Users want to know that Google is safeguarding their data and privacy. The trouble is that when Google calls the NSA, everyone watching sees it as a package deal. Google wants geeks, but it runs the risk of getting spies, too."
We need to DISBAND the NSA. A democracy should be run by it's citizenry, not the other way around. The entire idea behind the NSA, that the American people need to be spied on, is repugnant, and helps stagnate our liberty in obvious and tyrannical fashion. This kind of agency is the whole reason we don't have real elections with real candidates that talk about real issues. This kind of agency is only required in a media run fascism where the populace does not know who killed JFK, or why, or who then succeeded him and to what purpose.
We should disband the NSA immediately. It is the most loathsome, disgusting, and horrible institution yet created by man, and it serves no purpose other than to subvert the very principle of democracy.
I hold very few opinions. I hold information based on observation and fact. If you wish to disagree, please use facts.
How can you have one side without the other.
The signals-intelligence directorate to hack every trackable device and the information-assurance directorate to make sure the voice print is correct before the drone is released?
You can get it killing Dzokhar Dudayev,
You can get it tracking Abdullah Ocalan,
you can get it hacking wikileaks - -
- matter of fact; I've got it now.
A big predatory ideology in denial needs a big cold agency and the best cold agency is the NSA! No such agency.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
"An independent CSA would be trusted more widely than Fort Meade..."
The CSA - I like it - there's already a cool flag which can be seen on many pickup trucks in certain parts of the country.