[governance] The NSA's Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program

[McTim]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Well - two things.
>
> 1. The NSA / GCHQ etc activities in monitoring electronic intelligence
> have been known since at least the 80s,



right, this is in no way a "secret".



> with no shortage of spy novels (frederick forsyth's 'the fourth protocol'
> for example) giving several details that are, if anything, only being
> corroborated by the snowden exposes.  And in this atmosphere you had Postel
> and the others, you had ICANN, you had viable international
> multistakeholder cooperation across the board.  How or why does that change
> now because someone states the obvious with corroborating details?
>
> 2. Let many things pass / stay silent etc - then we get "nobody has
> responded to this, so I assume we have consensus".  Giving professional
> propagandists with a pernicious political  agenda the last word and
> suffering them to remain uncontradicted simply leaves them to declare a
> very public victory.




agreed.  Silence does not equal agreement.

On a related note, they may not have water and power much longer (ok,
actually very unlikley to happen)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/11/maryland-lawmakers-want-to-cut-water-electricity-to-nsa-headquarters/

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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