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Re:Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA by KingMob on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:01PM (#7072128)
> Can they brief Congress on what they're doing? All 535 publicity-seeking chatterboxes? No way. That's the same as issuing a press release.

Absolutely not. Keeping your (nominal) overseers appraised of your activities is not the same thing at all as informing the whole world in front of cameras. Your implicit argument is that Congress couldn't be trusted with the secrets the NSA would reveal. But this is countered by opinting out that the NSA can't be trusted with the secrets it has.

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Re:Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA by AnimalMuppet on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:13PM (#7072205)
Congress (all of it) should be briefed on the overview. The details (some of which are, rightly, classified)? No way. That's pretty much the established way of dealing with classified information - all of Congress does not get to know the details.

> ...the NSA can't be trusted with the secrets it has.

Very true.

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Re:Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA by canvia on Thursday January 16, 2014 @04:09PM (#7072560)
Made even more apparent by a contractor having access to so many of their "secrets".
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