That's one of the pit falls of security: often low level guys like you were have no idea what is really going on, and so imagine from some briefing that you actually know, when in fact, you were not cleared to know more than the internal cover story and your assignment.
We would not be here, if the traitor, Snowden, had not stolen what he did - which was much more that an overview of some of NSA’s operations (the reports revealed in the media) - what he took and gave to the Russians and Chinese were NSA’s Methods and Means complete with names and so forth; including reams on mil ops M&M.
Some operators will die because of him, but the public will never know their names.
G-d help us if he also got the crypto stuff, which many fear he did.
Potentially and because of the traitor, all mil cyphers have now been cracked by the Russians and Chinese - so our guys will be talking in the clear as far as the above parties are concerned. Like shooting chickens in a cage.
And you want to see NSA Fort Meade nuked ...
you sound like the jack nicholson colonel. any means necessary, right? fisa courts. coercing phone companies to access their systems in the little special rooms nobody else can get into. getting around spying laws by handing over foreign call info to the uk and the uk hands back outgoing call info to us, thereby technically not looking at the calls themselves.
you know nothing about me or my background. go pound it. you can be the blind naive cheerleader for lawbreakers under the guise of “patriotism” - as many have tried that one before - that have no problem intercepting any computer you buy and putting hooks into it to trace what you’re doing, but I’m not going to celebrate them for undermining the Constitution at the sake of “national security”.
and save your insults for someone who actually may be hurt by them. didn’t impress me at all.