Is The NSA The ‘Enron’ Of Intelligence

Former NSA Official Says Mismanagement Continues At Spy Agency -- Washington Times

Accused leaker calls organization the ‘Enron’ of intelligence.

Former National Security Agency whistleblower Thomas A. Drake says continuing mismanagement and malfeasance have turned the nation's premier electronic spy agency into “the Enron of the U.S. intelligence community.”

Mr. Drake, whose federal criminal case concluded last week, said in an interview with The Washington Times that he thinks management failures at NSA related to electronic surveillance and other issues that he protested — first through internal channels and then by sharing unclassified data with a Baltimore Sun reporter — are continuing.

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My Comment: This is always the problem with huge bureaucratic and costly organizations .... doubly so if they are secretive .... accountability and being responsible for mismanagement/incompetence is not the standard operating procedure. And while it is Congress that must provide oversight ..... LOL .... if recent years are any indication, they have completely fail in their responsibility to do any proper oversight of any sort over most (if not all) departments of government.