Posted on 08/06/2013 9:25:01 AM PDT by mojito
....The US government’s assertion that the “threats” emanating from this “chatter” were somehow “specific” belies itself because it is contrary to common sense. Any specificity would focus attention on specific people and places rather than eliciting meaningless general measures and warnings. That attention’s effectiveness would depend on secret preparations for counter strokes, not on public displays of fear.
This leads reasonable persons to conclude that some enemies of the United States, well knowing that NSA is listening, decided to give it an earful, with a few names and places thrown in by way of example, but not enough to remove the impression they sought to give of general mayhem. And so they ‘chattered.” They had sound reason to believe that US intelligence executives would trigger equally incompetent policy makers, fearful of being blamed for an attack on their watch preceded by such “chatter.”
The lesson to be taken from all this is that the NSA’s well-known (because of the nature of modern technology) capacity to intrude and manipulate electronic communications – but only those that are not thoughtfully guarded – combined with lack of quality control, leaves it at the mercy of any of its targets that wishes to feed it disinformation and then to watch the US government’s self-discrediting reactions.
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Codevilla is a sharp cookie. Thanks for posting.
If I were a terrorist and I was unsure of the NSA capacity, I would test my communications by putting out fake data to see if it got a reaction.
...you mean like their Ayman Al-Zawahiri impersonator?
The terrorists dont need to actually do anything anymore
They just need to flinch and obama flinches back 10 times as hard.
A lot safer and cheaper than actuallty building bombs and they can close the embassy forver with a new ‘chatter’ every week.
If they ACTUALLY bomb it, they will rebuild it and be back up and running
Just part of the diversion to show how badly we need to have our privacy invaded by the NSA.
The shouts of WOLF, Wolf ,are becoming annoying.
All these mutts have to do to keep the US off balance is to rachet up the chatter every once in a while.
Sounds like a replay of the description of the US as a ‘helpless pitiful giant’ from back in the Nixon era.
Any self respecting terrorist with a brain knows to encrypt serious communications. Hence, this is a smokescreen to justify the NSA recording all communications. Even phone calls on land lines are digitized when they are put onto fiber optic trunk lines.
NSA had bin Laden’s HQ phoned tapped for 3 years.
They tracked two of the hijackers to the U.S. before they lost them. (They stayed the night in a hotel a couple of miles from NSA HQ).
It is not a lack of information or the need for storing every com on the planet.
They’re incompetent on a much lower level than that.
Or; something vaguely like that.
Mine are' as I have fiber to the house.
The phone, the 'net, the TV - ALL of it comes in this way.
(I'll bet there is a local Master Switch; somewhere in the bowels of the beast; that can be thrown to tie all outgoing info thru whatever device the Powers that Be wants it to flow thru.)
According to William Binney, it was thrown a long time ago.
We are being played. False flag bullsh*t.
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