-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 12/15/99 2:05:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >POOR, POOR General Whathisname feeling a little embarrassed at the
reception
> his agents and his agency receive at the theater. Let's all have a pity
> party for him okay.
>
> Pity that is perhaps warranted, given the penchant of Hollywood to give
> every
> wild conspiracy theory about the NSA the widest possible airing.
>
> >Oh and let's not forget to raise the old budget for the
> NSA who are, presumably, according to this article running the risk of
> falling behind. They gotta catch up to catch those "rogue nuclear powers",
> and those "sinister hackers who are just itchin' to crash global computer
> systems". Why I'm just as amazed that with such a paltry budget of
[deleted
> for NATIONAL SECURITY reasons] that they are able to do anything at all.
> And
> with only [UNKNOWN] agents they certainly can't be expected to do
everything.
>
>
> Do you even have a sound idea of what they do?
>
> >Wait a minute! I think I got the answer! How about this, let's have the
> good old NSA start actually using it's resources for productive National
> Security purposes and have them QUIT WASTING ALL OF OUR MONEY ON MONITORING
> ALL OF US LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WITH THEIR ECHELON AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF
> THEIR CHARTER, FEDERAL LAW, AND THE CONSTITUTION.
>
> Nope. You don't have a clue. But it's obvious that you only see Big Brother
> down in Fort Meade...
>
> >Simple isn't it.
>
> If only you were right, but I think you're not.
>
> >I'm so stupid!
>
> Well you said it. Why argue with that?
>
> >There is even a better answer, how 'bout we scrap the
> hulking piece of shit instead, especially since the FBI has field offices
in
> other countries (not that there's anything wrong with that (lol)).
>
> Ah. Of course. Don't understand what it does. Someone or other told it was
> bad. I don't believe officials who say it does good. Smash, crush, kill,
> destroy is the only answer.
>
> Perhaps if you examined some of the literature around the traps about the
> essentially foreign intelligence collection role of the NSA as opposed to
> the
> speculative and alarmist work of the all too numerous "Big Brother
watchers"
> out there, you might realise that some things are not what they seem...
>
> BD
>
Oh I understand their role to be sure. You failed to notice that I said in
my comments that they should perhaps concentrate on their real role of actual
intelligence gathering for REAL national security issues. HOWEVER, that
being said, perhaps I DO believe more of the "conspiracy" oriented views of
the NSA rather than the official explanations of its activities as given by
themselves. I don't trust any agency that is so shrouded in secrecy AND has
a history of violating their charter by spying on Americans. The recent talk
of collaberation with the FBI on tracking so-called "terrorism" in the US is
another example.
I think a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted. By the way do you believe
all the pronouncements from Big Brother as to the necessity and value of all
their "agencies" and plans? Are you in ignorance of the many times they have
violated basic human rights, not to mention national and international law in
pursuit of dubious schemes (Contra/cocaine, Iran/Contra, Iraqgate, LSD
experimentation, etc. . .)?
Perhaps we shoul sit idly by and let them just do what they want since there
is no oversight. They even deny Congress its authority and refuse to release
information to them, or perhaps that is a matter of National Security too?
It is only a role that the Constitution grants them.
Rather than castigate me why not tell us all how valuable the NSA is and what
role they serve in garnering our National Security.
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