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warrprayer

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24. Read James Bamford

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 07:16 PM

Jun 2013

They are by and large wicked smart people doing a job.

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What is your honest opinion of the NSA? [View all] kentuck Jun 2013 OP

Hey Kentuck. I just started a thread along similar lines a couple minutes ago. HardTimes99 Jun 2013 #1

No. Don't delete your post. kentuck Jun 2013 #6

Pit of vipers. Next question... backscatter712 Jun 2013 #2

Scumbags, like most of the spy apparatus. Arctic Dave Jun 2013 #3

They serve a valuable purpose. cloudbase Jun 2013 #4

Fine bunch of people, every last one of them. Nimajneb Nilknarf Jun 2013 #5

The Inner Party monitoring the Outer Party.... Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #7

A bunch of Bushies earning too much money and doing next to nothing. Coyotl Jun 2013 #8

Seems to have become another public money maker for elites who don't work shit. MichiganVote Jun 2013 #9

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #10

To be fair 99.99% of people have no idea what they do NightWatcher Jun 2013 #11

Yours is the most valid post on this thread. randome Jun 2013 #15

People in the intel game like to call it No Such Agency NightWatcher Jun 2013 #25

Bureaucracy serves a purpose sometimes. To keep that compartmentalization in place. randome Jun 2013 #29

I know you are right. Hekate Jun 2013 #31

The privatization got crazy under Clinton NightWatcher Jun 2013 #33

I want to see the NSA drowned in a bathtub. scarletwoman Jun 2013 #12

Another vote for pit of vipers. grntuscarora Jun 2013 #13

They do more harm than good. I expect the ratio is very tilted toward harm. DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2013 #14

They're the greatest. Octafish Jun 2013 #16

I think they are wonderful, caring people, with only our best interests in mind DJ13 Jun 2013 #17

rofl Vattel Jun 2013 #19

The collection of signals intelligence and the protection of US classified info is essential FarCenter Jun 2013 #18

And we need the CIA also? kentuck Jun 2013 #22

The CIA is collecting human intelligence, doing analysis of multiple sources, and doing covert ops FarCenter Jun 2013 #26

I guess they are not into multi-tasking? kentuck Jun 2013 #28

NSA and CIA are two out of the sixteen US intelligence community members FarCenter Jun 2013 #35

Dangerous to this country. avebury Jun 2013 #20

I think the NSA needs more funding. zappaman Jun 2013 #21

ba-dump-TA! warrprayer Jun 2013 #23

Read James Bamford warrprayer Jun 2013 #24

An excellent employment opportunity for those in IT. nt MattFromKY Jun 2013 #27

Nuanced nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #30

I have friends who work there. We shouldn't demonize all NSA workers. They do a good service Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2013 #32

NSA provides a service to this nation, but when scumbags gets access it can really be bad. Thinkingabout Jun 2013 #34

Every single $ in the NSA budget.... daleanime Jun 2013 #36

The do an important service and are demonized by those not in the know ksoze Jun 2013 #37

The NSA is so opaque that it's difficult to tell how much good or harm it does, winter is coming Jun 2013 #38

Dangerous tools that are too easily perverted, at best. TheKentuckian Jun 2013 #39