Posted on 12/02/2013 5:44:16 PM PST by Libloather
**SNIP**
...the NSA evidently compiled a two-page document, dated November 22, giving instructions for discussing the highly secretive agency with “family and close friends”.
Among the points officials are “authorized to share” this holiday season: “The NSA’s mission is of great value to the nation”; it performs its missions “exceptionally well”; and its employees are “loyal Americans with expert skills”.
NSA officials did not respond to questions about the talking points, their preparation and their veracity.
While most of the talking points simply provide that level of uncritical assurance, several pass along disputable or disputed claims – things that can probably pass muster around the mulled wine, but have come into sharp contention during congressional hearings.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
After the discussion they kill you.
““The NSA’s mission is of great value to the nation”; it performs its missions “exceptionally well”; and its employees are “loyal Americans with expert skills”
Oooo. lie like an Obama. None of this is true of course.
If I had a family member or close friend that worked for the NSA, I’d never speak to them again.
“I wonder if Hussein pimped this.”
No doubt. This has his stench all over it. If Chavez was
still alive he could smell the sulfur on it.
I agree 110%
The NSA is a Constitutuion-hating entity and our forefathers would never have supported it.
Someone who SPIES on you is NOT your friend.
If I had a relative or friend who worked for the NSA I’d have nothing to be on with them.
NSA = TREASON
Snowden said his biggest fear was the people not doing anything. His biggest fear has come true.
“I don’t work for the NSA and we never had this discussion. Pass the potato salad.”
You don’t have to speak to them, they’ll just listen to your phone calls.
“The NSA’s mission is of great value to the nation”; it performs its missions “exceptionally well”; and its employees are “loyal Americans with expert skills”.
In contrast to the Imperial military tradition, the nature of the SS was based on an ideology where commitment, effectiveness and political reliability—not class or education—would determine how far they succeeded in the organisation.[11] The SS also stressed total loyalty and obedience to orders unto death. It became a powerful tool used by Hitler and the Nazi state for political ends. The SS ideology and values of the organisation were one of the main reasons why the SS was entrusted with the execution of many Nazi atrocities and war crimes of the Nazi state. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel#Ideology]
“NSA? No Such Agency. I work for...uh...say, Aunt Martha’s bean salad is good, isn’t it? She got the recipe from an Italian website. At 12:35 on the 23d of November. No, just guessing there...”
Talking points for government workers is so Soviet.
I suggest that NSA employees just tell people something less embarrassing, like “I’m a janitor in a brothel.”
You don't need to; they can just listen in while you talk to somebody else.
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