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Glenn Greenwald's New Article Destroys "Invaluable," Legal NSA Program

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Reality Based Steve5/19/2014 4:56:47 pm PDT

I’m not a violent man… I’m really not. But Greenwald has managed to make me willing to shake off the thin veneer of civilization that we all wear.

When I was in the military, one of the things I learned working in comsec (Communications Security) and hanging out with the S-2 (Intelligence) shop is that you don’t have to give up all of a secret to compromise many many thing.

Bits of information, each one relatively insignificant, taken in context, can reveal much about that which is unknown. You have to assume that the people you are hiding information from are intelligent, understand analysis, and have people who are good at it too. (and yes, that includes non-conventional / asymmetric forces).

What GG is doing is exposing the basic operational concepts, practices and tools to all who will read it. I don’t know, for the life of me, why he wasn’t arrested when he arrived in the US.

People are going to die because of him, if they haven’t already.

RBS