The title is a pull quote from an entry on the "End Time Prophecy News" which I strongly suggest you read. Do not form an opinion based on the name of the source … this is not crackpot opinion but a quote from a blue ribbon team currently studying the idiotic and extremely dangerous mess we have spinelessly allowed the current administration to build under the auspices of the NSA (No Such Agency or National security Agency). In my 38 years with the USAF I worked with the NSA a number of times, many of those times I still can’t mention. I can say this … the NSA is like any other government agency .. they often get things right but they sometimes get things horribly, horribly wrong … and unlike most agencies they have the cloak of "national security" to hide all their possible misdeeds … as well as their amazingly loose budget behind.
…. By diverting the flow of so much domestic data into a few massive pools, the administration may have "[built] for its opponents something that would be too expensive for them to build for themselves," say the authors: "a system that lets them see the U.S.’s intelligence interests…[and] that might be turned" to exploit conversations and information useful for plotting an attack on the United States….
Let’s assume we did not have this huge ‘spy on ourselves" juggernaut in place. let’s further suppose that I wanted to do you some injury or misdeed .. perhaps get my hands on on your money. Since I am not a master criminal nor a spy it would be pretty difficult … and pretty expensive.
But with the mess we have made and continue to allow our loose cannon administration to perpetuate, it becomes much easier .. almost trivially easy if I had my old job back .. or went to work with one of our virtually unsupervised contractors who are the folks who actually run this system. It’s scary. You know one of the reasons I finally decided to retire? My security clearance review was already more than 5 years out of date, with no update time in sight, and the prospect of explaining every move I had made, every trip to China the government knew nothing about, every other change in my life that had happened was to daunting to cope with. Security clearances are so far behind any more that it’s essentially a joke … once vetted, good for life … unless you meet the wrong people. I no longer felt proud in being a part of the mess.
"Although the NSA has extensive experience in building surveillance systems, that does not mean things cannot go wrong," the authors state. "When you build a system to spy on yourself, you entail an awesome risk." (The article, slated to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal IEEE Security & Privacy, was written by six experts from Sun Microsystems, Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and California-based research giant SRI International.)
If i were you, I’d get on the horn to your Congressman and Senators and tell them why you think this country should be owned by the citizens and not the NSA.
Of course, be very careful what you say and how you say it …..
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