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Did you read the article? The entire thing is about all the "whistleblowing" Snowden did on how amazingly good our foreign SIGINT is. Codenames of programs and
by twoodfin 13y ago
Did you read the article? The entire thing is about all the "whistleblowing" Snowden did on how amazingly good our foreign SIGINT is. Codenames of programs and names of targets in Afghanistan included.
- a3n 13y ago> Another former insider worries less about foreign leaders’ sensitivities than the potential danger the sprawling agency poses at home. William E. Binney, a former senior N.S.A. official who has become an outspoken critic, says he has no problem with spying on foreign targets like Brazil’s president or the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. “That’s pretty much what every government does,” he said. “It’s the foundation of diplomacy.” But Mr. Binney said that without new leadership, new laws and top-to-bottom reform, the agency will represent a threat of “turnkey totalitarianism” — the capability to turn its awesome power, now directed mainly against other countries, on the American public. > “I think it’s already starting to happen,” he said. “That’s what we have to stop.”
- twoodfin 13y agoWhat's your point? Are you arguing this wasn't an article about foreign SIGINT just because of one sentence we've read a thousand other times? There's not a single instance of domestic surveillance in this story, yet immediately the same shopworn comments about the NSA having "transformed foreign and domestic to mean outside and inside the NSA" start hitting hn. There's nothing in the article to support that claim.