> "The executive branch has now confirmed that the rules, regulations and court-imposed standards for protecting the privacy of Americans' have been violated thousands of times each year,"
And you can bet that if they admitted to those, the real violations are orders of magnitude worse.
Nothing coming out from either the White House or NSA or other secret agencies will be taken seriously anymore. Whatever they release and say, at least in the next year or so related to the spying, is just going to be regarded as more PR and lies. They have completely lost any credibility.
Now the bad part -- this doesn't seem to bother them. That bill to defund the NSA was close but not close enough to scare them. Now, what could happen as a nasty side effect is they notice our apathy it will just embolden them.
Anyone notice any promises of them shutting down their operation? Nope. Neither have I. But one can bet they will ramp them up.
This is like the tiny criminal that when he finds out everyone knows about his crimes but nothing really comes out of it either through apathy or fear, they just ramp up the intensity.
"We record %2 percent of traffic and there wasn't that much outrage, why don't we just record 20%".
There use to be a rule that for each letter a congressman got, 100 of his constituents were thinking the same thing. So seeing the <NSA> admit to a mistake rounded down by ~ an order of magnitude is probably a decent guess (!).
And you can bet that if they admitted to those, the real violations are orders of magnitude worse.
Nothing coming out from either the White House or NSA or other secret agencies will be taken seriously anymore. Whatever they release and say, at least in the next year or so related to the spying, is just going to be regarded as more PR and lies. They have completely lost any credibility.
Now the bad part -- this doesn't seem to bother them. That bill to defund the NSA was close but not close enough to scare them. Now, what could happen as a nasty side effect is they notice our apathy it will just embolden them.
Anyone notice any promises of them shutting down their operation? Nope. Neither have I. But one can bet they will ramp them up.
This is like the tiny criminal that when he finds out everyone knows about his crimes but nothing really comes out of it either through apathy or fear, they just ramp up the intensity.
"We record %2 percent of traffic and there wasn't that much outrage, why don't we just record 20%".