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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.
and Iâ(TM)m glad they are protecting us from foreign threat actors
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.
this government is invalid.
At what point in pre-holocaust Germany did it become okay for Jews to start killing Nazis? Are we there yet in this country?
There's nothing "open" about a spying agency, and to be effective spies they need to be dishonest (at least in the field).
I just hope "respect for (US) law" is really still a thing over there. Things don't look so good over at other agencies...
So, now their mission as a surreptitious spy agency dealing with lots of information they can't talk about is no longer being lied about on a PR page. Good. That earlier silliness is especially ironic, given its presence during the previous administration, which appears to have been using that agency's tools against domestic political rivals. Yeah, that was all warm-and-fuzzy "being honest with one another" and "completely transparent" behavior. Unless the agency's executive branch bosses didn't like you, in which case it was the exact opposite. Not that that's the NSA's fault, as an agency - that's entirely on their then-management in the White House, and those in the White House granted the power to troll through signal intelligence and the ability to unmask citizens from their collected communications. Here's looking at you, Susan Rice.
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Please tell me how an agency which violates the constitution and spies on Americans can be allowed to exist? They're worse then the sexual assaults the TSA illegal does daily.
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At least they're being honest about it now.
So they're finally being honest about being dishonest?
New regime is honest. We will kneecap you if you don't pay. We will no longer use evidence as our primary source of policy but rather adherence to the political agendas of the industrial interests and ideologues that support our cabal. Quick, someone get Fox and Friends to do a segment on a renewed commitment to manned space exploration through public and private partnerships and hope for a Presidential directive-by-tweet. And tell Elon to get to DC and start kissing rich kid ass quick.
I can neither confirm nor deny these changes. Although most people think I work for the FBI. Probably because I told the story about a college roommate getting recruited into the FBI as a forensic network technician and carries a gun with his networking gear when out in the field.
BTW, I got a new YouTube video coming out on Friday about why I thought the three-day government shutdown was too short for getting any IT work done. Check out my channel when you get the chance.
Maybe these things should simply be assumed and don't need to appear in every mission statement know to man?
I know folks will make this into "See They don't CARE about being honest! They took it out of their mission statement!" but I think that's a bit of overreach. Maybe they just assume that honest and ethical activity is always required and they want to highlight what the organization actually does in its mission statement, not how they do it.
And if you think about their activity... Openness and transparency might not be a good thing to put in a mission statement where it could be misconstrued by individuals in the organization dedicated to the clandestine collection of information.
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We already know that they don't respect the law, nor does the FBI, congress, President, courts, governors, police, mayors, and other elected officials / bureaucrats. Hell, I would like to meet an honest drain commissioner.
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They're a spy organization for god's sake.
But, "honesty"? I guess in the Trump White House it doesn't matter, which is unfortunate because the information is going to be used to place Americans in harm's way and would be critical in negotiating with other countries (trade, arms reduction, etc.).
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Since at least May 2016 (whoa... that long!), the surveillance agency had featured honesty as the first of four "core values" listed on NSA.gov. They're being more honest now by not attempting to deceive people into believing that they'll open about their work above other values, such as "commitment to service." Just because they removed the feel-good language doesn't mean they'll not continue to be working in the nation's best interests and within the law. But, publications need page views, and this is certainly click-bait worthy.
It's much more dishonest to speak about honesty and transparency when they aren't actually embraced to achieve your mission.
By removing honesty and truthfulness from their mission statement, they are being honest and truthful - perhaps more so that ever!
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It's not a change in protocol, it's just admitting what has been reality for a long time.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
... of what we all knew long ago.
You can tell that NSA is inhabited by a lot of super-nerds. It's actually a quiet little in-joke. They are virtue signalling by honestly admitting that, not only are they not honest, it isn't even on their "to-do" list.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
TRUMP POWA!
Only vote for this bullshit because if they dont they will release what they have on them.
At least they are honest about it.
The ENTIRE department of Justice and PLENTY of intelligence agencies run without any oversight from ELECTED officials.
Chuck Schumer himself mentioned the week Trump was elected the intelligence community has six ways past sunday to fight anyone they don't like.
That includes voters.
That includes the American people.
The president will get held accountable based on what he can pull off, but he has NO control over these organizations that are supposed to operate in his branch of government.
The DoJ and the intel orgs see it as their job to attack anyone in the party they don't like. This is why there are all these removed text messages among the high ranks of the FBI. They are trying to cover up the Russia style corruption going on.
That means these are POLITICAL offices now and need to be scrapped with every change in office.
Trump should be able to do with all these guys what Clinton did with the US attorneys when he took office: fire them all!
If there is any conflict between what the FBI wants and what the voters want, the FBI MUST LOSE. Voters know better!
Great trust? I have no great trust for the NSA. I have great DISTRUST for the NSA. I don't trust it at all. I think they're nothing but a lying bunch of fucking bastards. That's what I think.
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It seems like having done that they are now more open and honest about their core values.
to get to know a bit more about them and then everyone went full on conspiracy theorist. Gosh. We all need to treat our neighbors better.
Technically, by removing those items, maybe the are in fact being more 'honest' in the sense that they are letting everyone know they are not or can not be.
I just haven't the foggiest what it was supposed to signify.
The NSA had to remove it because they were threatened to be sued for False Advertising.
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These things may appear to be cosmetic (and laughable, given that it is a spy agency), but these things actually matter.
Under Reagan, we stopped aspiring to be a thoughtful, fair, humane, secular and kind society, and replaced those values with social Darwinism, greed, and self-serving behavior at all levels. This has eroded everything our nation has aspired to become for over 200 years in the space of a generation, and left us without a moral compass, with the country being run into the ground by a group of bigoted religious zealots and sociopathic 1%ers who are only to happy to rob the US treasury blind (c.f. the most recent tax law, the misuse of public funds for private trips by leading administration officials, tarrif, tax, and contract favors to companies owned by political supporters, etc).
It matters that we fall short of ideals, but it matters much, much more that we've stopped even aspiring to those ideals, and this move by the NSA is just the latest symptom of the underlying rot that has come to infect most of our institions. And therein lie the seeds of our downfall, helped along by a big dose of institutional treason by the Murdochs, Mercers, De Voses, and other extreme-right (and some outright fascist) 1%ers and many Republican leaders, coupled with a whole lot of outside interference.
No more Integrity or Fidelity from the FBI, they are as corrupt as anyone in DC from the previous director on down. They may still have "Bravery".
Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion & Spain 1492 (Christopher Columbus the jew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22C... sailed to the US for them to create it), France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?... just like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer â" so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).
Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.
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What World-famous Men have said About the Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYPzKNQUE0/
Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions)
Seriously... is there anyone who thought that slogan was anything but self-aggrandizing P.R. that goes on everywhere?
"NSA Deletes 'Honesty' and 'Openness' From Core Values"
Which is ironically more honest.
First bit of honesty from them to begin with....Cool.
Which means they are bullshitting nobody anyway. Now they just don't want to get caught lying and get doubly lambasted because they did lie and said they wouldn't.
The real question is... is this new tactic of deceit due to Jewish or Jesuit infiltration/influence.
It is not innocuous.
That's a fact established by court documents Judicial Watch got released under an FOIA request. The only question is: Was the private company allowed to run unsupervised FISA requests Fusion GPS?
Then you know they are just directly and shamelessly lying to you anyways. Scum stays scum, even (or often specifically) when they go into government jobs.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
...they did this because they really do want to be more open and honest in their mission?
They're just being more transparent now
This is a surprise? The NSA is a weapon, not a charity, so that's ironically the most honest thing they've done. They don't exist to make friends, they exist to dominate.
In a world where it takes months to find it about any news item that doesnâ(TM)t include a press release or news conference to quote from... does it really matter if someone honestly puts out information openly?
Back in the day, it was joked that "NSA" stood for "No Such Agency," because even the name of the agency was secret. It's silly for an agency whose entire mission is secret to put in their purported mission statement that "honesty", "openness", and "transparency" are their objectives; that would be a contradiction, and the only thing it would do would be to make the people who work for the agency understand that they are required to ignore the mission statement to do their jobs.
So, I applaud their honesty and openness in removing honesty and openness from their mission statement. This is, in fact, not their mission statement.
What is so surprising about this? It falls right in line with the rest of the U.S. Government (White House, Congress, IRS, FBI, CIA, etc. etc.).
I am American and I know that the NSA is being made great again. No longer will they be used to spy on amazing President Trump, now they will be used to come after traitor liberals and the leftists who are trying to inflame hatred of friendly countries and start damaging wars and coup here at home.
They should have gone the other way and elevated their honesty, even putting it in their name.
Like: Department of Honesty.
Or: Ministry of Honesty
Or: Ministry of Truth
Or: Minitrue, for short.
I'm sure most people didn't go beyond reading the headline and the synopsis. This is pretty much a nothing burger.
First, mission statements are usually the same pablum from company to company. People have meetings to come up with new ways to phrase them, publish them, and then pretty much do whatever they were planning to anyways.
Second, "honest" is still in there, included in the "Integrity" section. It's a bit silly to blame someone for combining "honest" and "integrity" into one point; they are largely the same thing. And the other things that are missing are pretty much covered in the texts of the other points.
I note that the authors of the article don't speak glowingly of the NSA finally deciding that they are "accountable". That's one of their called out points now. Or was the NSA deliberately being sinister in the past that they didn't mention it, but now they're good citizens?
Really, though, mission statements are pretty meaningless. You don't think Enron had a glowing mission statement? Google for it, and you'll see how meaningless it was.
This whole article is just another example of the confirmation bias that rules public discourse these days.
...everyone is so untrue
So we'll look forward to your "why would you credit Trump?" comments soon, when someone credits him with things he didn't do himself, right?
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I, for one, welcome our new fascist overlords!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
If you can't even manage to squeeze in ethics or morality because they're too antithetical to your work and you start cutting out honesty and openness, I don't we should be assuming anything positive or noble about their intentions or actions.
So, we should just get rid of all those murder and rape laws. I mean, we can just assume that people won't do bad things, right? Think of the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Old Testament, you got a lot of people do bad things and a list of [negative] rules of those bad things--not always in that order. In the New Testament, you got a [positive] commandment to "Love thy neighbor as thyself". So, yes, if we're not getting negative rules, we should at least include positive ones because people will, without anything, be selfish assholes.
But then as a clandestine collection organization with no allegiance to the truth, why wouldn't they lie in their mission statement? In fact, this is the whole reason for the joke N[o] S[uch] A[gency]. As others have pointed out, the paradox is there they'd be finally honest about their dishonesty. It's a joke, though, to think they're any more honest than meets their ends. Real honesty, though, can result in negative effects on oneself and it's precisely why honesty is considered a valued trait: it shows you're not just a selfish asshole and there may be something more to your character than the convenience of a lie.
Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion & Spain 1492 (Christopher Columbus the jew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22C... sailed to the US for them to create it), France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?... just like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer â" so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).
Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.
George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis. Zucker @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.
What World-famous Men have said About the Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYPzKNQUE0/
Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions)
Yet we are supposed to believe that powerful agencies with no oversight aren't? The NSA's first concern is to make NSA operators rich and dominant over the peasantry.
I will use every means I have, even beyond the line of duty, to restrain my Army comrades from actions disgraceful to themselves and to the uniform.
So I guess now you are now supposed to support your Army and comrades in committing actions disgraceful to themselves and to the uniform.
So quickly we forget the lessons of history.
"Integrity - We are committed to communicating honestly and directly, acting ethically and fairly and carrying out our mission efficiently and effectively."
Honesty is right there.
And what was mentioned in regards to openness, is now essentially there in the accountability dot point, even if it's not directly expressed.
"Fake News" and honesty are mutually exclusive... Don't want to embarrass anyone... Now that's settled, let's get back to making America Great Again.
There's an irony to this - now that they have removed "honesty" and "truthfulness" from their mission statement - they are now actually being rather more honest and truthful than they ever were before.
Deletes 'openness'? Where will the new holes in software,firmware, and CPUs come from?
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IE Intercepting foreign communications and securing domestic communications, with maybe some grey area/wiggle room around percieved allies, enemies, and domestics communicating with foreign nationals.
None of that really makes their mission statements contradictory. The solution is to provide secure domestic encryption, find exploits in foreign encryption which you do not disclose, and work with third parties (like the CIA) to provide alternative interception means, like getting the encryption keys off a system you are already capturing over the air/line communications from so you can decipher them.
It wouldn't be #2 on its mission statement if it was as important as protecting american citizen's own communications after all.
As long as honesty was one of their core values, they had to remove "Honesty", because they're so often dishonest.
Now that "Honesty" has been removed, they can add it back in.
Wait a sec!
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.