Snowdon is a dummy

I'm waiting for the grassy knoll to be introduced

Gen. Keith B. Alexander said that the disclosures by Edward J. Snowden had slowed the effort to protect the country against cyberattacks on Wall Street and other civilian targets.

N.S.A. Director Says Snowden Leaks Hamper Efforts Against Cyberattacks
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Gen. Keith B. Alexander said that the disclosures by Edward J. Snowden had slowed the effort to protect the country against cyberattacks on Wall Street and other civilian targets.

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I'm waiting for the grassy knoll to be introduced

Try telling that to the presidents and congressmen and others that we know Hoover blackmail over the decades he was in power.

Blackmailing by an out of control intelligence community is a real real real concern.

C'mon, Bill...bring in the grassy knoll...and Area 51!

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C'mon, Bill...bring in the grassy knoll...and Area 51!

Once more confirm history within both of our life times is confirm history even if you are not bright enough to know about it and or understand it and that history give every reason in the world to be concern about once more having an out of control intelligence community.

Footnote see the reason why congress after Hoover death placed a ten years limit on the term that can be service as the head of the FBI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

According to President Harry S. Truman, Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force; Truman stated that "we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him".[6]

Hoover hunted down and threatened anyone who made insinuations about his sexuality.[55] He also spread unsubstantiated rumors that Adlai Stevenson was gay to damage the liberal governor's 1952 presidential campaign.[55] His extensive secret files contained surveillance material on Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lesbian lovers, which some speculate was for the purpose of blackmail—as well as material on presidents' liaisons, including those of John F. Kennedy.[55]

Poor Frank first trying to discredit valid concerns base on past history by comparing that history with the grassy knoll...and Area 51 believers as if Hoover blackmailing of government leaders such as President Kennedy was of the same nature as those theories and then falling back on attacking my writing style.

Either you must be very dumb indeed to think that such behaviors will convict anyone of your positions or you view the bulk of the readers of this thread as being that dumb that such methods will work,

Only you know which of the two reasons for your behavior on this thread is correct.

For you to call anyone else dumb...is like Chris Christie calling someone else fat.

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For you to call anyone else dumb...is like Chris Christie calling someone else fat.

Trying to discredit valid concerns of an out of control intelligence community by comparing the history of Hoover blackmailing for decades US leaders and shapers in and out of the government with believing in area 51 is as dumb as can be.

For you to call anyone else dumb...is like Chris Christie calling someone else fat.

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For you to call anyone else dumb...is like Chris Christie calling someone else fat.

Poor poor dumb baby all you can do is repeat that above comment as there is no way even you can try to defend tying in the history of the misused of the intelligence community by Hoover in order to blackmail with area 51 or wild theories on the Kennedy assassination for that matter.

The legal work done by US-secret services is supervised by the democratically elected Senate intelligence committee, correct?

And the work and actions of those senators and staff are legally monitored by the CIA, correct?

Sorry, with "secret service" I meant the intelligence services.

Snowden - traitor or hero?

The argument over NSA surveillance has been reduced to bumper sticker values, Singer argued.

Three difference kinds of activity that have been exposed. The first bucket is that the NSA carries out espionage against American enemies - smart, strategic espionage. The second is legally and politically questionable, and related to mass collection of American citizens’ information collected either directly by the agency or by its allies.

“The third is what you could kindly call unstrategic - or stupid - directly targeting close america allies and leaders and undermining American technology companies. People want to say Snowden was a traitor or a whistleblower and we pull from the bucket we care the most about, but that’s a bumper sticker way of talking about it because people can simultaneously do both good and bad actions.”

Government needs reminding that they work for us, says Pulitzer-winning reporter Barton Gellman, who describes Edward Snowden as ending an era of indifference to surveillance

Encryptions tools must be simplified and made accessible for the mainstream, Pulitzer-winning journalist Barton Gellman said on Monday, calling on the tech industry to have the courage and ingenuity to help address the disparity of power between the people and their government.

Addressing the SXSW festival shortly before Edward Snowden’s live speech by video, Gellman said we are a long way off simple, transparent encryption tools. He cited Pew research which found that 88% of Americans say they have taken steps to protect their privacy in some form.

“With all the user interface brains out there we could get easier tools,” the said. “But it’s not just the ability to encrypt, it’s a frame of mind, a workflow and a discipline that is alien to most people, and that is the opposite to the open nature of the consumer internet. You could use Tor to access a site a hundred times, but the 101st time you forget, you may as well not have used Tor.”

“There are people at this conference who have taken very considerable risk to protect the privacy of their customers and have put themselves at the edge of the door to jail and it will take courage as well as ingenuity to change the way things work.”

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