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Highly incorrect. NSA success is measured through a reporting system that tracks which reports are cited in other reports, and which reports get used in briefs
by bazillion 13y ago
Highly incorrect. NSA success is measured through a reporting system that tracks which reports are cited in other reports, and which reports get used in briefs (and the relative level of brief). This mechanism is used to determine the relative importance (funding) of certain functions, and used to cull functions that are not ultimately reportable. The ultimate say-so in targeting comes from the administration, based on what information they're most interested in.
- jessaustin 13y agoSo there is a possible future in which the President, his advisers, and others in the executive branch throw out so many reports and briefs as "useless, not worth the paper to print" the stench of ineptitude so overwhelms the NSA brass that they spontaneously decide, themselves, to stop building in Utah and not collect all the data? Yeah, right. Pull the other one. Next you'll tell me an incumbent chief of police has realized the folly of The Drug War.