Spying Blind -- Shane Harris, Foreign Policy
The National Security Agency has an intelligence problem: It won’t admit how dumb it is.
The Obama administration's claim that the NSA is not spying on Americans rests on a fundamental assertion: That the intelligence agency is so good at distinguishing between innocent people and evildoers, and is so tightly overseen by Congress and the courts, that it doesn't routinely collect the communications of Americans en masse.
We now know that's not true. And we shouldn't be surprised. The question is, why won't the NSA admit it?
On Thursday night, the Washington Post released a classified audit of NSA's intelligence-gathering systems, showing they are beset by human error, fooled by moving targets, and rely on so many different servers and databases that NSA employees can't keep tabs on all of them.
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My Comment: Even the NSA's supporters are starting to "bail out" on supporting the NSA.
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