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I'm a recovering NSA Insider.
originally posted by: universalbri
originally posted by: NeoSpace
Nobody would ever be allowed to do what he's doing right now without threats to life and family or manufactured evidence of crimes he did not commit stacked against him.
We BOTH have nothing to fear.
originally posted by: InFriNiTee
a reply to: greghansen
I have a lot of questions, but somehow I feel that many of the questions I would ask-that you would not be allowed to answer. It's good that you wrote the book, and what an impressive career.
I'm guessing that the current levels of data monitoring have gone far above and beyond what they were since the time you were employed there. I'm also guessing that data monitoring is not the only thing that the Agency is involved in. I have heard that the Agency can plant data on hard disks if they so choose, among many other abilities. Those ideas lead to a few questions:
What are ways that people can protect themselves, in the event that there is a criminal type that gets into the Agency? What are the best ways for people to protect themselves in general when browsing the internet and interwebs? I am guessing that this is not the Ask Me Anything session, so I will be posting this here so I remember to ask these questions in the future. I just picked from the questions that I thought you could safely answer. Thank you for coming to ATS.
originally posted by: MRuss
a reply to: STTesc
Wow! How incredibly judgmental. Why don't you read a chapter first, explore his story and learn his motives before calling him a traitor?
Personally, I think you owe him an apology. Traitor is an incredibly strong word. Don't use it lightly.
Part of discerning what is really going on in the world is remaining open minded and gathering information until you can form a well thought -out opinion.
My take? Thank God for whistle blowers.
originally posted by: universalbri
originally posted by: OpinionatedB
a reply to: MagnaCarta2015
He is a former employee... its easy to check one's references...
Yeah. Because you know how the NSA's going to have this information readily available for anyone to access...
lol
*ring ring* NSA? yeah. I just want to check if Edward Snowden worked for you? Not in this reality? Ok. On that note. Does MagnaCarta2015 work for you? Not in this reality? Ok. Got it.
originally posted by: STTesc
I simply asked what type of person is required to join an agency known to spy own it's own citizens. I agree, thank God for whistle blowers, but how/why did they join to begin with? Traitor is a fitting title to anyone that willingly and knowingly violates our constitution.
a reply to: universalbri
That and he's a total prankster who needs competition for his pranks because he's clearly bored..
and so do i.
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: STTesc
I simply asked what type of person is required to join an agency known to spy own it's own citizens. I agree, thank God for whistle blowers, but how/why did they join to begin with? Traitor is a fitting title to anyone that willingly and knowingly violates our constitution.
Is there a place in the constitution that says it's unlawful to monitor communications from the US to some other country? I ask because the courts have looked at this many times and it's passed the legality test many times over. I'd assume that hundreds of judges with JDs and lots of experience would have spotted that sort of violation.
NSA's got lots of USSIDs that dictate what they do and why. In weird circumstances the president will stroke a classified PDD that changes the rules temporarily.
If you don't like what the NSA does, then why not elect someone who'll change the rules? In Bush I's day, you couldn't monitor anyone with so much as a green card inside the US border. It's more lax under Obama. A lot more. The president and national security council set the rules.