--On Saturday, April 05, 2014 8:52 PM -0700 coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
It gradually became apparent to me that in the months after Edward Snowden began releasing information about the government's foreign intelligence surveillance activities, the NSA was being severely -- and unfairly -- demonized by its critics.
conflating NSA as an institutional entity, NSA tasking, and NSA staff.
NSA tasking is bad and should feel bad.
NSA institutional culture is less bad, yet needs correction.
NSA employees individually? they have been deceived and demoralized themselves! this group is the least culpable, in my eyes.
Are you joking? The 'NSA institutional entity' IS NOTHING BUT THE COLLECTION OF NSA EMPLOYEES. Ah, yes, this team of murderers is bad 'as a team', but when you look at each individual murderer, individually they are anarcho-libertarian-pacifists who live in a monastery in tibet. Please.