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Re:How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers by pdkl95 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @02:14PM (#11749602)
> the ineffectiveness^Wincompetence of the NSA

The NSA used to understand concepts like compartmentalization ("need to know"). Their OPSEC shouldn't have allowed a single contractor to access so much data.

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Re:How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers by jessaustin on Sunday May 22, 2016 @04:45PM (#11750215)
One suspects that such practices were always tools used more to escape responsibility for heinous decisions than to secure the nation. Representative governments don't have "secrets".
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