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I don't think that the NSA really deals with plans about military operations. And also the original article mainly concerns itself with agents that had to leave
by cnvogel 11y ago
I don't think that the NSA really deals with plans about military operations. And also the original article mainly concerns itself with agents that had to leave hostile countries once their cover has been blown.
But yes, certainly some of the information in the Snowden revelations might have been valuable, but one would have to compare their impact with the constant stream of information obtained by reciprocal spying which is going on all of the time and (I'm convinced) is highly targeted...
- foxhedgehog 11y agoThe NSA is under the Department of Defense and, by their charter, provides information to the USG about military operations. You are also confusing the issue of what NSA produces vs. what information they have access to. I'm also not sure that I follow this second argument. Snowden's revelations are clearly supplemental to any espionage that might have been going on against the U.S.