Re:EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techn...
by bediger4000 on Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:36AM
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I'm going to disagree at a tangent: the NSA cannot conduct legitimate surveillance. We shouldn't have an NSA.
First, we don't even know what the contents of the executive order (!!!) that created the NSA are. Their very basis may be illegitimate.
Second, evidence says that the complete secrecy they demand just grows like weeds until it encompasses everything. Then, the follow-on paranoia about the secrecy means they can't use the information they've got. I'll offer the DEA's "parallel construction" as support here.
The NSA, as currently based and constituted, is utterly useless. It only supports a very rigid power structure in doing things that power structure shouldn't do in the first place.
First, we don't even know what the contents of the executive order (!!!) that created the NSA are. Their very basis may be illegitimate.
Second, evidence says that the complete secrecy they demand just grows like weeds until it encompasses everything. Then, the follow-on paranoia about the secrecy means they can't use the information they've got. I'll offer the DEA's "parallel construction" as support here.
The NSA, as currently based and constituted, is utterly useless. It only supports a very rigid power structure in doing things that power structure shouldn't do in the first place.