Monday, June 10, 2013
Another apparent contradiction
Still marveling at the circus of multi-layer nonsense surrounding the "revelations" on spying.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has decried the revelation of the intelligence-gathering programs as reckless and said it has done “huge, grave damage.” In recent days, he took the rare step of declassifying some details about them to respond to media reports about counterterrorism techniques employed by the government.Why damage? Sane people have known about this for a long time. Most importantly, our supposed "enemies" have known about it as well. Why the fuck do you suppose Sheikh Osama used all sorts of cutouts and personal messengers to insulate his communications from the Web? He understood the system. If you focus on the phrase supposed "enemies", the answer becomes clear. Clapper obviously doesn't care that al-Qaeda already knows everything about his system. He DOES care that the American people are learning something about his system. This tells you who NSA's real enemies are. And that's no surprise either. ¶ 3:24 AM
