How many warrantless wiretaps did you need to figure that out, Sherlock?
He blamed public mistrust on the way the newsmedia had framed the issues raised in the Snowden revelations.
"Kill the messenger!"
No shi...er...no Obama, Sherlock.
Ya think??
What a marroon. The NSA lost our trust as a result of their SPYING on us.
Duh.
The NSA monitored Americans more than the Enemy;
and egregiously let the ENEMY kill in Boston
and elsewhere, over and over.
Transparency is BS. It is passive and does nothing.
Reduce the size by 50% and rename it.
State what it may do and NOT do.
Give it no enforcement power.
What trust?
The ONLY legitimate intelligence service is military intelligence.
The CIA should be gone.
The military should have its own intelligence sections.
They should report up to SecDef.
NOT directly to el Presidente.
Otherwise, the way things have ALWAYS been with CIA, we have an organization that is run amok.
CIA, to put it simply, has unfettered capability to create wars and revolutions.
It has NO accountability, ZERO oversight, because NO ONE can EVER get an honest answer from them about what they have going on.
It’s impossible because no one has independent access to anything inside CIA, everyone has to go through CIA to ask for internal CIA information, which allows CIA to filter what it provides access to.
Combine that with the fact that the leadership has always been hand-picked minions of elite finance, and you have corruption on the largest scale ever. The CIA is simply a tool for elite finance, masquerading as a legitimate agency.
Well, duh.
It’s not just the NSA that Americans have lost faith in,
It’s this whole damned federal gub mint.
Great job obammy ya Marxist mooselimb piece of crap
Look Dipsh8 Michael Rogers
NSA is the enemy
I think the entire Federal government has lost the trust of the American people. It simply exists to exist; it consumes our money, produces nothing, and represses anyone who dares point this out.
“lost” Americans’ trust?
No. The violated the hell out of it.
hmmm....let’s see, he’s going to blame the news media, when they in fact are likely the ones in possession of all the other juicy tidbits Snowden took which have not been released yet?
And this guy was deemed smart enough to be confirmed for the job?
A good way to regain trust is to prosecute those who spied on america. All of them. Put them in camps to be re-educated on the fundamentals of liberty and democracy. Only let them out when they pledge to be loyal to the Constitution and not ever participate in rogue bureaucracies that violate the law. That would include tens of thousands of employees at least. But they need to be held to account. They must never be trusted again.
Oh, one more thing. Open all the files so Americans can see what their government is collecting on them. This is perhaps the most essential step in regaining trust.
In the year before Snowden only 0.003% of the one trillion phone calls made per year in the U.S. mentioned the NSA in a negative manner. After Snowden that number jumped to 0.2%.