Time to tame the NSA behemoth trampling our rights
From leaks and Fisa
court papers, it's clear the NSA is a bloated spying
bureaucracy out of control. It can't be reformed by insiders
From leaks and Fisa
court papers, it's clear the NSA is a bloated spying
bureaucracy out of control. It can't be reformed by insiders
The spate of new NSA disclosures substantially raises the stakes of this debate. We now know that the intelligence establishment systematically undermines oversight by lying to both Congress and the courts. We know that the NSA infiltrates internet standard-setting processes to security protocols that make surveillance harder. We know that the NSA uses persuasion, subterfuge, and legal coercion to distort software and hardware product design by commercial companies.
We have learned that in pursuit of its bureaucratic mission to
obtain signals intelligence in a pervasively networked world, the
NSA has mounted a
systematic campaign against the foundations of American power:
constitutional checks and balances, technological leadership, and
market entrepreneurship. The NSA scandal is no longer about privacy, or a particular
violation of constitutional or legislative obligations. The
American body politic is suffering a severe case of auto-immune
disease: our defense system is attacking other critical systems of
our body.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/nsa-behemoth-trampling-rights