@Swopa @emptywheel - when the key issues for NSA seemed to involve whether this was legal, and when one of the NSA’s public defenders ...
@Swopa I ALSO, btw, have zero doubt Rus/China have paid others to get similar docs for them, bc security at NSA so piss poor. @henryfarrell
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@Swopa to amplify@emptywheel, anti-Snowdenistas explicitly assume malign motivation - that he is a “traitor” out to hurt the US. -
@Swopa@emptywheel no need to make assumptions about motivations here - we know them - to keep “customers” in USG happy with relevant info. -
@Swopa@emptywheel Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. The point@emptywheel has made is that _this does not flout_ legal guidelines. -
@Swopa@emptywheel As notorious NSA-hater Ben Wittes notes, guidelines allow them to do this. There is _no disagreement_ on this ... -
@Swopa@emptywheel between people who like or dislike NSA. I explicitly do not think that the NSA is full of malign people ... -
@Swopa@emptywheel but when bureaucratic institutions are given a set goal, and told that the rules allow them to take specific actions ... -
@Swopa@emptywheel that conduct towards that goal, they do what bureaucracies do. Unlike your poorly chosen counter-example, you do ... -
@Swopa not need to assume malign motivations to believe that they will behave in this way@emptywheel - 2 more replies
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