It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

Re:It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014) by randcraw on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:12PM (#9107904)

Exactly. Right now the NSA can escape all legal oversight because it has historically operated physically outside the US and under military governance. Since 9-11 and the Patriot Acts, BSA operations have moved inside the US. And in concert with the sharing of intel across military and civilian, the NSA now operates freely across all spaces. This was never intended by statute, and virtually no oversight is in place to ensure 1) intel is gathered lawfully or 2) info is shared lawfully. Unlike the NSA, the FBI must operate wholly within the US and state civilian court system, so its gathering and disbursing of info is much more closely overseen and regulated.

It's also become very clear from their response to Snowden's revelations that NSA is not going to get any closer oversight any time soon. The FBI and its partners cannot hope to maintain a comparable cloak of invulnerability. To Bruce's suggestion, I vote yea.

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Re:It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014) by angersock on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:21PM (#9107977)

Here's your oversight:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

Giving NSA powers (or archives) to the NSA is a really, really, really bad idea.

The court system and legal system in the US these days is a joke and a farce--just look at the number of cases that make it to trial. We can't afford to give this sort of power over to any law enforcement agency.

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