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Breaking Up the NSA

posted by Dopefish on Thursday February 27 2014, @07:00AM   
from the community-oversight-is-needed dept.

AnonTechie writes "Bruce Schneier: The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual mission --protecting the security of U.S. communications and eavesdropping on the communications of our enemies has become unbalanced in the post-Cold War, all-terrorism-all-the-time era. Putting the U.S. Cyber Command, the military's cyberwar wing, in the same location and under the same commander, expanded the NSA's power. The result is an agency that prioritizes intelligence gathering over security, and that's increasingly putting us all at risk. It's time we thought about breaking up the National Security Agency."

• Accountability without Consequences Accountability without Consequences (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 27 2014, @09:10PM

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday February 27 2014, @09:10PM (#8120) Journal

  Breaking up the NSA is a fine idea on the face of it, except it excuses the criminals in charge of that agency. Arrest and execute those at the top, three ranks deep, and you will see true repentance on the part of the staff. Break it up without those measures, and you will see three small agencies grow up to each be as large and lawless as the NSA is. That is how government works, regardless of branch. And we have never seen a department of the federal government in America broken up and punished so, so we can all take it to the bank that it will never happen in the future either unless we the citizens execute that action ourselves upon the criminals in DC. We are, now, at the point where that either happens expeditiously and comprehensively, or we will all suffer a thousand years of real slavery.

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  Washington DC delenda est.

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• Re:Accountability without Consequences (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @05:24AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2014, @05:24AM (#8294)

  Agree with all but second sentence.

  Only 19 comments on this? Really?

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