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Re:Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Dat... by baddox on Friday November 21, 2014 @03:47AM (#8640411)
Isn't this a semantic argument? There's really not much of a difference between "getting rid of the NSA" and "reforming the NSA by kicking out anyone in any way involved in the spying scandals and drastically overhauling the rules and oversight." Either way, you're getting rid of anything recognizable as the current NSA, and it doesn't really matter what you call the new agency that performs the legitimate tasks that the NSA is supposed to perform.
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Re:Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Dat... by CHY872 on Friday November 21, 2014 @05:28AM (#8640649)
Well, not really. You'd absolutely destroy the NSA's experience and domain knowledge, setting back its operational capabilities by a matter of decades and basically put the Russians and the Chinese in the driving seat. It's not a small organisation - these things take a lot of time to set up properly.
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