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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.
They never cared about any of that shit before...they're just now being open about the fact the only thing they care about is fucking the american public and violating our foruth admendment rights.
You are correct. In the civilian market, I call it Corporate Arrogance. It's when an organization knows damn well that they can do whatever the fuck they want, and there's not a damn thing you can say or do about it.
They'll change their signature line to Fuck You Very Much and Have a Nice Day soon too.
You certainly sound antsy. Like you're increasingly uncomfortable with the way this whole thing is actually turning out. Even the highly partisan FBI agent who went out of his way to make sure Clinton didn't get indicted for her mishandling of classified information made it plain - after already spending considerable time on looking into Russia's decades-long disinformation/disruption campaign in the context of the 2016 election season - said he didn't there was any there there. This, from a guy with a hair-on-fire loathing, just like yours, of Trump. Your little prison fantasy probably makes you feel good, but alas it's far more likely that it's people operating at the tail end of the Obama administration that actually did illegal things. Seriously illegal things. But carry on with your fantasy, and ranting about it. Your sort of shrill delusion, screeched out loud for lots of people to hear, is a big part of why the Democrats lost all of their political power at the federal level, and most of it at the state level. Please, carry on. You're doing good work!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Donald Trump is Chick Schumer's bitch. Schumer plays him like a violin every chance he gets to.
Ah, yes. That explains why Trump got the tax bill he wanted, despite Schumer doing everything he could to stop it. That explains why Schumer's idiotic shutdown theatrics got him exactly nowhere (other than hated even more by the far-left wing of his party). Yeah, that Schumer really is making headway with his brilliant tactics. Quite something!
Schumer's oily, phony patronizing and condescension is so transparently fake that even his own party has been recoiling from it. But sure, you keep on believing the opposite. Please do that right up through the next couple of election cycles, OK? Great! Thanks.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Nobody thinks you are competent enough to work for the FBI. Seriously.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun