NSA Having Flashbacks To Watergate Era -- McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is facing its worst crisis since the domestic spying scandals four decades ago led to the first formal oversight and overhaul of U.S. intelligence operations.
Thanks to former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden's flood of leaks to the media, and the Obama administration's uneven response to them, morale at the spy agency responsible for intercepting communications of terrorists and foreign adversaries has plummeted, former officials say. Even sympathetic lawmakers are calling for new curbs on the NSA's powers.
"This is a secret intelligence agency that's now in the news every day," said Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and later led the CIA. "Each day, the workforce wakes up and reads the daily indictment."
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My Comment: I am not surprised to read this report about the morale in the NSA being in the toilet. What is probably not helping the situation is the pressure that they are receiving from their political masters to solve this continuing problem .... as well as the realization that they are being set up to be the "fall guy" for the bad NSA policy from the White House and Congress.
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