[LINK] NSA to examine -- itself

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm,

The US government (and the other four governments involved ... including ours) continues to aver that shooting the messenger (Snowden) and firing a few system administrators is basically all that needs to be done to close down this can of worms.

Never mind the ...
- Lack of data, security, compartmentalisation and siloing
- Unlawful and (in the US) unconstitutional acquisition of data
- Unlawful dissemination of data to third party agencies and contractor individuals and entities
- Unsanctioned, technically legally unfunded and unannounced expansion of the security apparati
- Threats to privacy of individuals and democracy generally
- Lying to Congress, the judiciary and the legislature in at least 3 countries by public officials
- The collective hypocrisy of the 5 nations participating in hoovering the private data when pointing their fingers at other so-called 'totalitarian states' and competitors they have repeatedly accused of doing exactly the same thing (except ... IRONICALLY ... on a smaller scale).

Once the traitor Edward Snowden is run to ground and the sysops receive their pink slips, everything will be apples again.

And I assume that the other 5-10 million people (bureaucrats, contractors et alia) in our grossly over-funded and intrusive security agencies across the planet who have access to some or all of the offending (and no doubt offensive) data collected are all 'good guys' wearing white hats and travelling on white stallions named 'Silver' or something like that ... so they're not likely to become a problem.

And the market in the West for Cloud services, that is likely to be adversely affected by the understanding that no cloud (or network) data is confidential or private, will be able to gain compensation from the bloated intelligence budgets that have made the Cloud so instantly unattractive.

And that, as Jan and the article infer, that the offending agency paying the bills for the consultants investigating its own behaviour, will be rigorous and stalwart in tracking down any infractions and offenders ... aside from the obvious Edward Snowden ...I mean, that's likely isn't it?

Of course ... these are just assumptions.

I may be being a bit naive.          :)

Just my 2 cents worth
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On 13/08/2013, at 8:06 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/191-press-releases-2013/909-dni-clapper-announces-review-group-on-intelligence-and-communications-technologies
> 
> “This Independent Technical Review Group Brought 
> to You By the Booz Allen Hamilton Director of National Intelligence™”
> http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/12/this-technical-review-group-brought-to-you-by-the-booz-allen-hamilton-director-of-national-intelligence/
> 
> I guess it was all too good to be true when Obama 
> said it would be independent and done by 'outsiders'.
> 
> 
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