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Or the US Government is just like any other large organization, and when low level employees screw up, or a report looks bad, everyone at every level on the way
by roc 13y ago
Or the US Government is just like any other large organization, and when low level employees screw up, or a report looks bad, everyone at every level on the way up tries like hell to bury, burn or spin it, so that it doesn't reflect poorly on them.
Which does imply a troubling level of ignorance and/or misplaced trust, but is not necessarily on par with the NSA gone rogue or the President being a dupe or stooge.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoOkay then, the NSA is incompetent/untrustworthy, and the gov't is incompetent/derelict in its oversight duty. I'm going to consider this possibility to be less likely, unless the President makes decisive corrective action. If the President can't denounce/correct such a failure, then he owns it.