This is a crucial observation and NSA cannot deny the deniability of its commanding superiors and budget axe-persons. One possibility which recurs in NSA history is that individuals inside will have the courage or opportunity to explain how this actually works, verging on virgin suicide. Limited as always by draconian secrecy agreements which imperil disclosers with retribution of being pilloried as Betrayers of the Trust in NSA domestication journals. This looming retribution is what induces hemming and hawing by former insiders -- interlaced with inhuman clarity of not going too far, top secrets activate brain-implanted recorders -- who spill some beans but not all, always followed by an assertion you can never know what I know, recorder beeps damn tootin. As with Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, William Binney, et al. Nobody beeps like that here. Bleeping predators who exploit former insiders without sharing the risk are despicable scoundrels, not motherfucking cowards, cowering behind privileges of press, law, religion, and, oh my sweet James Jesus: Judas-duplicitous cryptology, finger-pointng brayers extraordinaire, verily in thrall to kings-coined, oversexed In-Q-Televangelists. At 02:31 PM 7/15/2014, you wrote:
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
This is not the NSA's goal. This is the goal of those for whom the NSA works even if their deal includes giving both Congress & POTUS plausible deniability about just whose goals are whose.
--dan