re my letter about clipper in article strnlghtc bjdw mid netcom com strnlght netcom com david sternlight writes part of the basis for my belief is that we nsa have more people spend much more money and have much better hardware than anyone else the same could be said for many other goverment agencies but big budgets large staffs and long lead time haven t made many of them into models of effectiveness the fact is that those of us outside the inner circles have only james bamford s word that the people at the nsa use those legendary masses of computers for anything other than reading netnews like many of us the nsa doesn t have an impressive record of accomplishments at least not a public record david sternlight great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of our information errors and omissions excepted this on the other hand is priceless where s it from
