NSA director: Edward Snowden has caused irreversible damage to us

[GliderGuider]

Oh sorry, that should read NSA director: Edward Snowden has caused irreversible damage to US

National Security Agency director Keith Alexander said on Sunday that whistleblower Edward Snowden betrayed the trust of Americans and defended the broad surveillance programs as necessary to prevent another terrorist attack.

As Snowden evaded an attempt on Sunday by Washington to have him arrested in Hong Kong, General Alexander told ABC's This Week: "This is an individual who is not acting, in my opinion, with noble intent ... What Snowden has revealed has caused irreversible and significant damage to our country and to our allies."

He read from a 2012 intelligence committee report about a law that broadened the NSA's authority to perform surveillance even when US communications are involved that said after "four years of oversight, the committee has not identified a single case in which a government official engaged in wilful effort to circumvent or violate the law".

Yet last year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence conceded publicly that the surveillance had violated the fourth amendment on at least one occasion. The circumstances behind that violation remain classified.

You can always tell whose ox has been gored by who bellows the loudest.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. This should be bolded

Yet last year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence conceded publicly that the surveillance had violated the fourth amendment on at least one occasion. The circumstances behind that violation remain classified.

I wonder how many more? Watching CNN though, it's for our own good.

[Hydra]

21. Yup, there it is, in black and white

"We violated the highest law in the land"

And to think the Blue Link squad keeps saying this is legal.

[think]

2. From article: "the Director of National Intelligence conceded publicly

that the surveillance had violated the fourth amendment on at least one occasion. The circumstances behind that violation remain classified."

Can we at least stop passing the political football on whether the 4th amendment was violated or not?

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/07/2012-07-20-OLA-Ltr-to-Senator-Wyden-ref-Declassification-Request.pdf

[boomer55]

3. The NSA has caused irreversable damage to the USA. n/t

[GliderGuider]

9. Yeah, that's what he meant, but it's not how it comes across...

nt

[HooptieWagon]

4. Yes, public knowledge of unconstitutional spying

might cause the spigot of the money machine to be turned off, and guilty parties to be charged (or impeached).

[fredamae]

5. Did I miss the Listed Details

and specifics of alleged Irreversible Damage to US???

I'd rather not be taled "at" but rather "to" and I would like additional information--should We the People be asked to "take sides of credibility" withOut first being fully informed?

[Puzzledtraveller]

6. Really?

That does not say a lot about the NSA now does it?

[premium]

7. This is what I wrote in an earlier post in another thread.

It is, IMHO, still relevant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3075011

Like I'm going to believe a fucking thing the NSA/Alexander says

at this point. Liars all. The NSA needs their budget halved at least, their new facility in Utah closed, and a full, deep probing of what they've been doing since the Frank Church hearings, and while we're at it, include all the intelligence agencies to an in your ass probing of what lies they've been feeding the American people since the mid 70's.

I am so fucking angry at the govt. right now that I'm spitting nails.

Like this fuckwad has any credibility at all left?

[byeya]

19. + + +

[backscatter712]

8. It exposed the criminal enterprise.

Now the public knows they're snooping on everyone, so they're likely to get leashed.

[carolinayellowdog]

10. Edward Snowden: NSA has caused irreversible damage to us

whom to believe?

[GliderGuider]

11. +1

[Pale Blue Dot]

12. So the NSA allows a 3-month employee, hired with little qualifications by a private contractor,

To possess information that would cause us "irreversible damage" if it came out?

Yeah, the problem is Snowden.

[Harmony Blue]

13. Haha this

NSA director needs to lose their job I think...I wonder if Obama has the conviction to do it.

[HardTimes99]

17. Ha ha this. NSA Director (war criminal under Rumsferatu) has the goods on

Obama.

Obama needs to get the goods on Alexander.

[bobduca]

22. Yeah but

who watches the watchers when they are watching the other watchers watching us?

[premium]

14. Amazing, ain't it?

Instead of addressing the real problem, ie., spying on Americans and the whole world, he proclaims that the problem is the messenger?
Talk about cognitive disconnect.

[siligut]

15. Yes, I hope the NSA is damaged

And I hope their huge new Data Center is somehow killed off.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. He is being awarded a DUzy for that statemnt but it's being kept Top Secret.

[sibelian]

18. Correction: Edward Snowden has caused irreversible damage to KEITH ALEXANDER.

Walked off with your shit on a thumb drive, Keith. Not looking too smart.

[Marrah_G]

20. Good, you piece of shit

Your whole agency should be dissolved.