"'[The new rules] makes our job more difficult,' Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the head of the N.S.A. and the commander of the military’s Cyber Command, told the Aspen Security Forum, an annual meeting on security issues. "
If nothing else this is an excellent demonstration of how leaking information makes it harder to maintain conspiracies.
Funny how the term fell out favor with techies over a decade ago, yet the general public and the press in particular seem to love it. (At least they're no longer calling it the "information superhighway".)
“When the president first came on board, we had a huge set of mistakes that we were working through in 2009,” he told the audience. “He said essentially, ‘I can see the value of these, but how do we ensure that we get these within compliance and that everything is exactly right?’ ” That suggested that Mr. Obama had questioned the execution of a program he had inherited from President George W. Bush, but satisfied himself by having the N.S.A. set up what the general called a “directorate of compliance,” an internal watchdog group.
So back in 2009 they were breaking the law in a myriad ways. Now, they're breaking the law in fewer ways. In the meantime, two things happened:
1) They set up an "internal watchdog" (the effectiveness of that is secret and disputable)
2) They came up with secret laws to make the stuff they were doing anyway legal.
Which of those two do you think had the biggest effect on reducing the amount of illegal stuff they were doing?
I continue to think that government departments that commit crimes should be eliminated by either the judiciary or the legislative branch, illico. There can be no excuse for widespread criminality in government.
Obama crossed the impeachable threshold quite some time ago. I keep waiting for the Tea Partiers to call for impeachment based on all the horrible things his administration is actually doing, rather than the imaginary things they dreamed up.
Unfortunately Congress seems to be full of a bunch of ineffectual tools right now. Even if the right were to legitimately push for impeachment, it would turn into a clusterfuck of party loyalty and race-bating. Also, good luck getting the votes required to knock him out in the democrat-majority Senate.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 44.2 ms ] thread"'[The new rules] makes our job more difficult,' Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the head of the N.S.A. and the commander of the military’s Cyber Command, told the Aspen Security Forum, an annual meeting on security issues. "
If nothing else this is an excellent demonstration of how leaking information makes it harder to maintain conspiracies.
>Pentagon’s first units devoted to conducting cyberoffense and -defense operations
>The description of the Pentagon’s new cyberteams
>The administration recently conceded that it was developing cyberweapons.
>Future operations run by Cyber Command
>for now the cyberforce will be drawn from members of the armed services.
>The cyberforces are inexpensive
>other nations that are justifying the creation of their own cyberunits
>Iran has created its own cybercorps
/twitch
The amount of cyber in this article is TOO DAMN HIGH.
So back in 2009 they were breaking the law in a myriad ways. Now, they're breaking the law in fewer ways. In the meantime, two things happened:
1) They set up an "internal watchdog" (the effectiveness of that is secret and disputable)
2) They came up with secret laws to make the stuff they were doing anyway legal.
Which of those two do you think had the biggest effect on reducing the amount of illegal stuff they were doing?
I continue to think that government departments that commit crimes should be eliminated by either the judiciary or the legislative branch, illico. There can be no excuse for widespread criminality in government.
Wasn't Obama a Constitutional Lawyer? You'd think he'd know better.
Appropriate Judicial Oversight: Too freakin' expensive! Let's just change the law so we don't need it.