The NSA fights dirty, who'd a thought?

[caseymoz]

Are you one of those radical lefties who believe in free love? Well, the NSA has a special weapon against you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html

None of the six individuals targeted by the NSA is accused in the document of being involved in terror plots. The agency believes they all currently reside outside the United States. It identifies one of them, however, as a "U.S. person," which means he is either a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. A U.S. person is entitled to greater legal protections against NSA surveillance than foreigners are.

Stewart Baker, a one-time general counsel for the NSA and a top Homeland Security official in the Bush administration, said that the idea of using potentially embarrassing information to undermine targets is a sound one. "If people are engaged in trying to recruit folks to kill Americans and we can discredit them, we ought to," said Baker. "On the whole, it's fairer and maybe more humane" than bombing a target, he said, describing the tactic as "dropping the truth on them."

Or how about bringing Occupy radicals or NSA hostile politicians under control? J. Edgar Hoover did this, and had the elected government in his palm by doing it.

Is stopping terrorism (and drugs) worth the measures we're taking? Police kill eight times as many people per year terrorists do. Since 2001, they're killed more people than the number of US deaths in Iraq.

Also, I can't forget the irony that mischief by the US intelligence community is what brought terrorists on us to begin with. If it weren't for the CIA and NSA and such, we wouldn't need the CIA and NSA. They perpetuate their own existence to protect us from the wrath from what they did yesterday.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

1. Yeah,

they do engage in some job security creation.

[RC]

2. That is the problem in a nut shell

If it weren't for the CIA and NSA and such, we wouldn't need the CIA and NSA. They perpetuate their own existence to protect us from the wrath from what they did yesterday.

We create our own enemies, so we have someone to protect ourselves against.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Only the Left are its Enemies.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. The article further states the NSA is watching your porn site visits. Building profiles, I presume.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. They're making a list, and checking it twice,

They're gonna find out,
Who needs to be iced.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Ermagerd! Intelligence agencies exploit people's sexuality for intelligence advantage????

Who ever could have imagined such a scenario in the whole history of the world!

[caseymoz]

7. Oh, when you put it like that . . .

. . . these aren't actual enemies, people who bomb anybody, leaders of factions or even people who plan attacks. These are people who say nasty things about the US. With the poor oversight we have over the NSA, this could be aimed at anybody, including people who are politically unfriendly to the NSA.

Blackmailing somebody for what they've done in mutual sex that involves another person is one thing. But here the attack is on somebody's masturbation habits and fantasies. As blackmail goes, that's as close to thoughtcrime as it is to sexuality.

All I could say is, just wait until your privacy is breached and see if you stay blase about the principle.