Personal observation: Internal security best practices in spy organizations are rarely 'overlooked'. It is all about trade-offs. II think the more important q

Personal observation: Internal security best practices in spy organizations are rarely 'overlooked'. It is all about trade-offs. II think the more important question is "why would the NSA have lax internal oversight on both user-privledges AND audit-logs?" The answer is that it is much easier for black bag operations to be scrubbed from potential oversight when an individual holds the power to run the hidden|illegal analysis and clean their own log trails.