I do certification of high risk industrial installations for a living, and this story reminded me of one I heard about the Japanese Fukushima disaster. One of

I do certification of high risk industrial installations for a living, and this story reminded me of one I heard about the Japanese Fukushima disaster. One of the guys who does certification over there did some digging and found out that they had 3 sets of operating procedures for the plant: the independently reviewed and certified ones which would provide a high level of safe operation; the ones they didn't show anyone which was how they supposedly operated the plant day to day (cutting corners); and then the way they actually operated the plant, which was even less safe. When I read stories about the FISA, they sound shocking, but they also sound a lot like Fukushima's 'second level' operating procedures. Bad, and an obvious sideshow, but not even close to what's really going on behind closed doors at the NSA.