The leak was an attempt to bolster the libertarian brand.

[randome]

77. You're right, too much secrecy -and duplicity- breeds mistrust. Always.

But maybe Obama IS being upfront with us. So far, I don't see the 'You lie!' moment some are hoping to find.

The internal audit by the NSA hardly seems like a whitewash of anything. A few thousand computer-generated errors out of millions of queries? 'Miniscule' is the word for that.

I'm not sure how we can force Congress to take its oversight responsibilities seriously. But I agree something needs to be done. From one extreme to the other, whether one believes the NSA is 'evil' or benign, it's clear that at the very least trust needs to be re-established.

I'm not sure how that can happen, though. Any non-Congressional agency placed in charge of oversight will of course quickly be accused of accepting bribes, etc.

Maybe being more upfront about all the safeguards and restrictions the bureaucracy has set up. But even that may lay the groundwork for someone finding a weak point in the agency so I don't know.
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