As I've stated in previous posts, this worm is really 'beginning to turn'. I strongly suspect that we have another Ellsburg/Pentagon Papers here and all 12 charges against Ellsburg were dropped eventually. The NSA got caught with its hand in a very big cookie jar and as your sig says WolfBBY: "secrecy is the first refuge of the incompetent." while I don't agree with his method precisely I'm not displeased with development. In reading The Shadow Factory too, the real waste becomes apparent; all of the horrifically vast info is unusable for the most part and just stored as there aren't enough analysts to deal with it. Ironically not unlike Bletchley Park with the U-Bootwaffe Enigma stuff on the Triton code. By the time the info had cleared, the convoy(s) had moved way beyond the info's usefulness to an escort commander. The next AL Queda attack is probably stored info wise in Texas or San Francisco as we speak, but an analyst won't get to the data for two years.$$$ ? At least Verizon is making money...
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