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Showing Original Post only (View all)What is your honest opinion of the NSA? [View all]
Do you love what they do to protect our country from terrorists and foreign enemies?
Or do you think they are a pit of vipers, with no oversight, and thieves of the public treasury?
Do you tend to trust the NSA over Greenwald and Snowden, the leakers? Does your opinion of the NSA color how you might feel about the Snowden story?
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Hey Kentuck. I just started a thread along similar lines a couple minutes ago.
HardTimes99
Jun 2013
#1
Seems to have become another public money maker for elites who don't work shit.
MichiganVote
Jun 2013
#9
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#10
Bureaucracy serves a purpose sometimes. To keep that compartmentalization in place.
randome
Jun 2013
#29
They do more harm than good. I expect the ratio is very tilted toward harm.
DisgustipatedinCA
Jun 2013
#14
The collection of signals intelligence and the protection of US classified info is essential
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#18
The CIA is collecting human intelligence, doing analysis of multiple sources, and doing covert ops
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#26
I have friends who work there. We shouldn't demonize all NSA workers. They do a good service
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jun 2013
#32
NSA provides a service to this nation, but when scumbags gets access it can really be bad.
Thinkingabout
Jun 2013
#34
The NSA is so opaque that it's difficult to tell how much good or harm it does,
winter is coming
Jun 2013
#38