My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander -- Jennifer Granick, Forbes
On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I had called the NSA’s activities “criminal” in the digital pages of the New York Times, so I thought it was particularly gracious of him to sit with me. General Alexander is an engaging man and our conversation left me with an appreciation for a fundamental difference in perspective between defenders and critics of the NSA’s surveillance program: whether you believe that unchecked power inevitably corrupts, or rather believe that the sincere intentions of well-meaning individuals will protect us.
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Update: How the NSA’s boss can believe his agency’s own propaganda -- Timothy B. Lee, Washington Post
My Comment: For a better understanding on what is the mindset of the NSA .... the above two posts are a must read.
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