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Hahaha, think they're gonna tell you? The NSA is by FAR the most secretive govt agency, more so than the NGA, CIA, or any other three letter agency. And the s
by ImprovedSilence 15y ago
Hahaha, think they're gonna tell you? The NSA is by FAR the most secretive govt agency, more so than the NGA, CIA, or any other three letter agency. And the scale of their operations are kinda scary, and probably violate several consitunional rights... But's that's just opinion banter, will we ever really know for sure?
- joe_the_user 15y agoActually, The existence of systematic secrecy does let us "know for sure" that democracy itself is being made a mockery of, since any democracy worth its name defends itself in the open. Of course, the secrecy is fortunately not so complete that there are not numerous examples we can cite to flesh out the thesis of the decay of democracy under this regime.
- mjwalshe 15y agoThis is the same naive view that "gentlemen do not read each others mail" that post WW1 led to US crypto being sidelined. Maybe if the USA hand not been so isolationist and put more into crypto Perl Harbour would have been very different.
- glesica 15y agoWas Pearl Harbor really that bad? I mean in the grand scheme of things. Which would be preferable, preventing another Pearl Harbor or preserving liberty? I'll take liberty every single time because otherwise there's nothing worth defending.