LoveINT ‽
The Wall Street Journal continues its reporting on NSA with NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests.
NSA Chief Compliance Officer John DeLong emphasized in a conference call with reporters last week that ‘It was rare … didn’t happen often … just a few bad apples … it’s just a flesh wound …’ [not a real quote]
It was so rare that they took the time and energy to create a name for it: LoveINT.
Every time they say things didn’t happen, you know that they will come to grips with the reality that Snowden may have a PowerPoint slide that shows it was happening, so they announce they ‘misspoke’ and offer a little truth that will be more defensible it the slide shows up. This is a glacier of bad karma that is creeping over the entire effort.
Until these guys make Senator Ron Wyden happy, there is no point in thinking that we have seen the end of the bad news about this program.
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LoveINT? Next, they’ll be hiring Lynda Lovon, the Physics Chanteuse, the Particle of Love, to report on the story. FDL blogger D.S. Wright (see plethora of links on my site) had the best line on the whole business: “It seems to be a two tracked system—if it’s illegal the government will do it in secret and if its [sic] legal they will do it openly.”
Heads, they win; tails, we lose…
They mentioned finding out at clearance renewal time on the polygraph. Well clearances are good for 5 years, and polygraphs are garbage, so there is a lot of this going on that is unreported.
All of this is ‘self-reported’ as in ‘they wouldn’t lie, for they are honorable men’.
On a different topic….
We have some seriously brave pilots up north battling that humungous Rim Fire up in Yosemite-ville.
http://youtu.be/AdTo_Bgh_ig
It is so big that it is generating its own weather. I’ve been tracking it but dealing with multiple ‘real life’ issues locally. I’ll be spotty on Internet time for the next few weeks.