"I will keep spying on you and sucking up your calls, but fear not! I'll have a
THIRD PARTY store all the data. Doesn't that make it all better?"
No, you bastard, it doesn't.
More on this mess:
Of course I'm not going to give details on the meeting, except to
say that it was candid and interesting. And that it's extremely freaky
that Congress has such a difficult time getting information out of the
NSA that they have to ask me. I really want oversight to work better in
this country.
Surreal part of setting up this meeting: I suggested that we hold this meeting in a SCIF,
because they wanted me to talk about top secret documents that had not
been made public. The problem is that I, as someone without a
clearance, would not be allowed into the SCIF. So we had to have the
meeting in a regular room.
Y'know, if Congress actually gave a rats ass
about this and had any balls, this would be easy to deal with: "The NSA
budget will be cut by half each time they refuse to give us information we ask for."
But that would require giving
a damn(about privacy and the Constitution, not 'How can we use this for
ourselves?' They very much care about that) and having balls. And for
most of them...
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