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NSA disciplines employees who violate their rules on who gets to access data. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/nsa-spies-who-couldnt-resis
by mhneu 8y ago
NSA disciplines employees who violate their rules on who gets to access data.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/nsa-spies-who-couldnt-resist-snooping-their-loved-ones/310567/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/nsa-spi...
And senior congressional officials, including people like Feinstein, Grassley, Burr, Schiff, and Warner, are effectively briefed on all intelligence matters. Not every member of congress is. America did a decent job after Watergate implementing supervision of intel.
NSA is probably not perfect, but it's better than the alternative. You know the old quote "Democracy isn't a great way to govern but it's better than the alternatives" -- probably fair to say "Western intelligence agencies aren't perfect but they are the best way we know to navigate today's surveillance economy and secure democracies."
- rtkwe 8y agoThe problem is as much oversight as there is they intentionally dissemble and use twisted definitions when testifying before the congressional oversight committies. In 2013 the claimed their PRISM and associated wide scale surveillance activities didn't 'collect' information about or surveil american citizens because respectively they didn't task or view the information and didn't listen in on the actual content of the conversations. It's impossible to properly oversee an organization that is that circumspect with the people overseeing them.