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« on: April 11, 2014, 09:33:04 PM »
Horrible Agency, of course. Should be dismantled and never allowed to be reconstituted in any way, shape, or fashion.
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« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2014, 09:46:54 PM »
There are no credible excuses for its actions by this point based on all of the information that has been released.
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« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2014, 09:59:41 PM »
Freedom Agency.
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« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2014, 09:59:54 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2014, 11:27:44 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2014, 11:36:57 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2014, 09:12:55 AM »
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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2014, 10:12:10 AM »
Mega-HS. It has a purpose, but its not being used for its purpose, its only causing corruption and loss of privacy/civil liberties.
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« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2014, 11:35:21 AM »
Necessary Evil, but should be reined in.
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« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2014, 11:42:06 AM »
Overall, does good work. Honestly, they aren't even that invasive. I would be surprised to see one   person that most Americans would care about that has been seriously harmed by the NSA.
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« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2014, 11:46:48 AM »
I don't blame the NSA.  The problem is the Congress and political people in the executive branch.

Politicians don't want to define what the NSA can and cannot do.  On one hand, politicians don't want to explicitly tell American that our spies can do X, Y and Z, because they'll be criticized by civil libertarians and people in the opposing party who are temporarily libertarian.  On the other  hand, politicians don't want to hamstring our intelligence services and find themselves blamed for a terrorist attack.  In addition, because the NSA is secret, politicians can never really take credit and boast about how their NSA policies worked. 

Basically, political interests are served by taking a totally hand-off attitude and delegating their policy-making authority to the NSA.  Unfortunately, that's exactly what we don't want.  The NSA shouldn't be deciding how much power they have.  I would be 100% OK with the NSA if we could define their role and subject them to legislative and judicial accountability. 
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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2014, 06:36:04 AM »
The absolute worst
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« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2014, 06:49:08 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2014, 06:54:31 AM »
Pretty much as bad as it's portrayed. Don't see many redeeming qualities.
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« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2014, 07:12:01 AM »
Quote from: Franzl on April 14, 2014, 06:54:31 AM
Pretty much as bad as it's portrayed. Don't see many redeeming qualities.
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« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2014, 08:00:21 AM »
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