I thought the car smelled funny after I put the Globe in it this morning:
"Some criticize NSA as overcautious on privacy" by Eric Lichtblau and Michael S. Schmidt | New York Times, August 03, 2013
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency’s dominant role as the nation’s spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say.
Agencies working to curb drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting, and even copyright infringement complain that their attempts to exploit the security agency’s vast resources have often been turned down because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority, according to current and former government officials.
That's a lie. What has happened is the agencies are given the data, then they "reconstruct" the investigation.
Intelligence officials say they have been careful to limit the use of the security agency’s troves of data and eavesdropping spyware for fear they could be misused in ways that violate US privacy protections.
This is Orwellian, folks.
The recent disclosures of agency activities by its former contractor Edward J. Snowden have led to widespread criticism that its surveillance operations go too far and have prompted Washington lawmakers to talk of reining them in.
But out of public view, there has been agitation in recent years for the opposite reason: some officials outside the security agency say the spy tools are not used widely enough....
They must be like me with all the piles of Boston Globe papers and clippings. All this stuff I will likely never get to (but I will, but I will, I tell myself) as more comes in and I fall further behind every day.
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Also see: The Boston Globe's NSA Intercepts
Includes this blog.
