I know - it is highly disturbing. I worked in the crypto industry for a few years and started way back by reading "The Puzzle Palace" by James Bramford to see what I could learn of NSA as publicly known. This book was copyrighted in 1982. The current release of NSA secrets to the NYT is TREASON and there is nothing to debate. I can only hope the DOJ will follow through and not assign it to a bunch of Toon RATS to investigate. House cleaning is needed all through the Intelligence Agencies. They need to have the loyalty the Military establishes in its ranks. I don't know why Bush is encouraging the investigation of NSA and its operations? They have an IG, the DOD has an IG - that ought to be sufficient. They have counsel and know the laws intimately - I worked with NSA's attorneys.
Sometimes I wonder if he's not trying to rid the entire government of all the traitors and party hacks.