No Keystroke Left Behind

[Robin Landseadel]

"    With the NSA's code names for its electronic spying operations  
like "Dishfire," "Tracfin," "Polarbreeze," and "Snacks" -- (an acronym  
for "Social Network Analysis Collaboration Knowledge Services") -- I  
was reminded of the Central Intelligence Agency's domestic spy  
apparatus that was exposed in the 1970s with codenames like "Chaos,"  
"Cable Splicer," "Garden Plot," and "Leprechaun."

Like the CIA's past abuses, or the FBI's COINTELPRO, the current  
practices of the NSA feature the same duping of the American people,  
the same lies to Congress (see "Clapper, James R."), and the same  
overblown claims of protecting "national security." During the Cold  
War we needed to be spied on to defend ourselves against the Soviets  
and the Maoists. Today, it's the terrorists -- tomorrow? Who knows?    "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/now-who-is-the-real-narci_b_4209806.html
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