Re:Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA
by logicallee on Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:34AM
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>NSA employees are so siloed from each other
A chance encounter in the canteen:
"Oh, hey Bob! You don't know who I am, hi, I'm Steve McDougal here, from the OPHELIA project. Don't take this the wrong way but I've been reading your diary and I can't help but tell you that I feel the EXACT same way about our organization's spying on ordinary Americans as you do."
"Are you kidding, Steve! I know exactly who you are - I've been reading your diary for months, too!! The one you keep in : C:\Users\Steve\Documents\steves private thoughts.doc? You were writing in there just this morning about how even in Orwell's 1984 he could at least turn away from the monitoring TV!!"
"Oh wow Bob. Or that entry you wrote the other day about Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - I think this was where you were writing about your wife Sue getting banged by the FedEx guy"
"Yeah well ha-ha Steve, I could tell you never bothered to look at your wife's work Blackberry number!"
"What? You're kidding!"
"No, check it out. You got something to note this down with, I know it by heart: it's 505-234-9918. Didn't you ever hear Sue and I reading excerpts? That is some hot stuff."
"What - no, I only listen to you guys when you're actually fucking, and that hasn't happened for months. If you want to really hear something, try your home around 2 PM tomorrow, since your wife ordered something from Amazon again."
"Fedex?"
"Yep :). But so anyway, what were we talking about again?"
"Oh the diary stuff. Yeah your thoughts are like a mirror image of mine."
"Yeah I don't know how we never met before, I've been reading your diary ever since you filed a complaint about the lunchmeat. But what did you think about my thoughts on Director Alexander?"
"Well to be perfectly honest with you I think you should have kept them to yourself."
A chance encounter in the canteen:
"Oh, hey Bob! You don't know who I am, hi, I'm Steve McDougal here, from the OPHELIA project. Don't take this the wrong way but I've been reading your diary and I can't help but tell you that I feel the EXACT same way about our organization's spying on ordinary Americans as you do."
"Are you kidding, Steve! I know exactly who you are - I've been reading your diary for months, too!! The one you keep in : C:\Users\Steve\Documents\steves private thoughts.doc? You were writing in there just this morning about how even in Orwell's 1984 he could at least turn away from the monitoring TV!!"
"Oh wow Bob. Or that entry you wrote the other day about Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - I think this was where you were writing about your wife Sue getting banged by the FedEx guy"
"Yeah well ha-ha Steve, I could tell you never bothered to look at your wife's work Blackberry number!"
"What? You're kidding!"
"No, check it out. You got something to note this down with, I know it by heart: it's 505-234-9918. Didn't you ever hear Sue and I reading excerpts? That is some hot stuff."
"What - no, I only listen to you guys when you're actually fucking, and that hasn't happened for months. If you want to really hear something, try your home around 2 PM tomorrow, since your wife ordered something from Amazon again."
"Fedex?"
"Yep :). But so anyway, what were we talking about again?"
"Oh the diary stuff. Yeah your thoughts are like a mirror image of mine."
"Yeah I don't know how we never met before, I've been reading your diary ever since you filed a complaint about the lunchmeat. But what did you think about my thoughts on Director Alexander?"
"Well to be perfectly honest with you I think you should have kept them to yourself."
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