27,
December 2013
NSA Spying
William
Binny, creator of some of the NSA surveillance code, recently expressed concern that the
agency is drowning in mountains of useless data which has rendered it to be
totally dysfunctional. He also warned
that the temptation for abuse and misuse of the information is extremely
troubling. Internet companies that willingly cooperated with the NSA have now
become some of its most vocal critics concerned that they are losing billions
of dollars of business from overseas clients who have been outraged over the
intrusive activities of the spy agency. The NSA’s massive PR campaign is
beginning to falter; Diane Roark, a House Committee staff member expressed
dismay of the NSA’s virtual paralysis. Binny and his former colleagues created
a streamlined “ThinThread” information filtering code that avoided redundancy
but their efforts were rejected by the NSA hierarchy. Stung by media criticism
the NSA commissioned the FBI to harass and take legal action against the
creators of “ThinThread” who went public with some of their concerns. Never
underestimate the power of big government to abuse its power and silence its
critics. President
Obama, a constitutional lawyer should know better than to defend the gross
overreach of the NSA. It is instructive that the NSA couldn’t cite a single instance in which its mammoth sized haystack of data
circumvented an imminent attack – including the Boston bomber.
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