Why Has NSA Failed To Keep Its Own Secrets? -- Mark Urban, BBC
WASHINGTON: The past week has been a wretched one for the US National Security Agency (NSA), with revelations of large-scale trawling of phone call data in France and Spain, as well as of eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
During these months, since thousands of files copied by former NSA contactor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden started leaking into the public domain, the US has been compared to an Orwellian Big Brother state.
But I cannot help wondering, if the NSA is as powerful as its critics have claimed, why has it been so useless at protecting its secrets?
Where are the worm viruses unleashed into the computer systems of newspapers that have published US secrets? The court orders to prevent additional disclosures? And, if you enjoy spy fiction, the deniable operators climbing over balconies in Brazil or Hong Kong to steal laptops or indeed terminate their owners?
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Birds, Bees and NSA Spies -- Wall Street Journal
Why America Should Spy on Europe -- Tom Rogan, NRO
NSA Spying Threatens to Hamper U.S. Foreign Policy -- Deb Riechmann, Real Clear World
NSA spying on allies: What must now change -- Christian Science Monitor editorial
Saudi Arabia’s message to Obama -- Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
The U.S.-Saudi Predicament -- Yoram Ettinger, Real Clear World
Syria and Hizbollah have hollowed out the Lebanese state -- Hussein Ibish, The National
To Fight al-Shabaab, Clean Up Somalia -- Bloomberg editorial
China's Coming Economic Slowdown -- Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal
Want To See A 'Demographic Death Spiral?' Look At Japan, Not Russia -- Mark Adomanis, Forbes
No more warriors in Europe but plenty of populist politicians -- Daniel Woker, The Interpreter
Foreign policy based on fantasy -- Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Mexico's Zetas Are Not Finished Yet -- Scott Stewart and Tristan Reed, Forbes
Homeland Security Chairman on Benghazi Report: ‘Al-Qaeda Is Spreading Like a Wildfire’ -- Bridget Johnson, PJ Media
Modern slavery and the UN's shameful response -- Michael Curtis, The Commentator
Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? -- Bill Keller, New York Times
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