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Top Ten Things Ted Cruz did to the NSA and other Security Agencies that Edward Snowden Couldn’t
http://www.juancole.com/2013/10/security-agencies-snowden.htmlTop Ten Things Ted Cruz did to the NSA and other Security Agencies that Edward Snowden Couldn’t
Posted on 10/03/2013 by Juan Cole
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. Some 70% of NSA staff have been sent home as a result of the Republican Party shutdown of the Federal government. Despite its straying into US territory and its possible industrial espionage abroad, the NSA does actually track terrorists, and we would like it to do that well; that ability has doubtless been degraded by Cruz’s grandstanding.
2. Likewise 70% of the CIA has been sent home, at a time when al-Qaeda is reviving. Perhaps the Defense Intelligence Agency is in a bit better shape, since it has more military personnel, who are exempt from being furloughed.
3. 4000 computer specialists working for US intelligence have been furloughed.
4. Some 400,000 civilian support staff at the Department of Defense have been sent home without pay.
