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NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values (theintercept.com)
An anonymous shares a report: The National Security Agency maintains a page on its website that outlines its mission statement. But earlier this month, the agency made a discreet change: It removed "honesty" as its top priority. Since at least May 2016, the surveillance agency had featured honesty as the first of four "core values" listed on NSA.gov, alongside "respect for the law," "integrity," and "transparency." The agency vowed on the site to "be truthful with each other." On January 12, however, the NSA removed the mission statement page -- which can still be viewed through the Internet Archive -- and replaced it with a new version. Now, the parts about honesty and the pledge to be truthful have been deleted. The agency's new top value is "commitment to service," which it says means "excellence in the pursuit of our critical mission." Those are not the only striking alterations. In its old core values, the NSA explained that it would strive to be deserving of the "great trust" placed in it by national leaders and American citizens. It said that it would "honor the public's need for openness." But those phrases are now gone; all references to "trust," "honor," and "openness" have disappeared.
Posting Anonymously for obvious reasons. Many many years ago I did some intelligence work. I would be completely honest about who I was, who I worked for, why I needed the information and what I wanted. I never once had someone who was unhelpful to me. They might not have given me everything that I wanted but even then they might forward me to someone further up who would help. Respect, honesty and saying please goes a long way.
So what you're saying is that the long list of Susan Rice's unmasking targets is imaginary. That the records of self-proclaimed Clinton partisans assigned to investigate Clinton altering the language of the bureau's findings to avoid the words that trigger an indictment, along with their own words proclaiming their approval of a "path" to getting her in office, but the need for an "insurance policy" against the possibility that she might fail ... those records are all imaginary. Please, carry on. Would love to see whatever you've got that has convinced you that Fox or Breitbart have secretly managed to control the minds of congressional investigators to make THEM imagine into existence the records they've gathered, and which every Democrat on the relevant committee has been insisting remain suppressed. We'll just let it all play out, and you can keep insisting none of it is true, while seeming to suggest that things for which there IS NO EVIDENCE is, somehow, true. You get the CNN gold star for the day - keep carrying that water!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I can always tell when someone is uncomfortable with things like the testimony from Fusion GPS and the other related information that's right in front of them - because instead of addressing the actual facts and substance of the matter, they go right to the childish, lazy, craven "you are a moron" ad hominem in order to demonstrate their mastery of the matter. Well done! The evidence you've provided to show that the Clinton campaign, DNC, Fusion GPS, and related records available for your own perusal are in fact fiction - well, you're very compelling, I must say. I especially like your use of "ignorance" and "dumbfuck" to characterize people who didn't want to vote for the wildly corrupt, serially lying Hillary Clinton to put her and her husband back in power after they'd already enriched themselves to the tune of millions of dollars selling access while in office.
I know, you LIKED that about her. You wanted the Clintons back in power because even though they are corrupt liars, they were your kind of corrupt liars. It is funny, though, for you to be railing about sociopathy (even you can't spell it) on Trump's part, while pretending that Clinton's actual acute case of it wasn't one of the reasons that millions of two-time Obama voters turned their backs on the Democrats a year ago. But please, carry on with the vitriol, the ad hominem, and the meltdown hysterics - because that sort of fit-having and display of hatred towards others is exactly why the Democrats lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, both houses of congress, most of the governorships, the White House, the Supreme Court, and a lot of good will from millions of their own party members. Please, more! You've been doing excellent work so far. Ramp it up as much as possible before the mid-terms, if you don't mind. Be sure to keep telling people they're morons - that works wonders. Pro tip: you should try telling millions of women that they're "irredeemably deplorable," too. They love that. Always makes them want to vote for the person you insist they vote for.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.