The NSA: An Inside View
Interesting to get a look at what it's like to be inside the bubble. It's compartmentalized enough that the individual actors can justify their actions by the assumed competence and benevolence of the others.<p>> I didn't test it, but I'm sure there was automated analysis that prevented or flagged use of US selectors.<p>The mental leap here is subtle, but substantial. <i>Since I have been told I can't use US selectors , I assume the system enforces this. As such, US citizens have nothing to worry about.</i> However, in the immediately previous paragraph, he noted:<p>> one employee spied on a spouse<p>So much for automated analysis, besides not being able to filter out US citizens' data it can't even filter out an employee's direct family. But there's no need to worry citizen, the NSA has a very high-quality workforce.<p>In the NY Times this morning was a piece noting that the government has concluded they don't know what files Snowden took with him (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/us/officials-say-us-may-never-know-extent-of-snowdens-leaks.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/us/officials-say-us-may-ne...</a>). The most technologically advanced intelligence agency in the history of the world and they have no idea what files were electronically taken by one of their own. One of their own who passed the background check by the way--I don't know why the OP is so enamored with the polygraph.