My letter to the Baltimore Sun, [associated with the LA Times] ---
Editor:
Calling the exposure of the NSA program monitoring communications to and from suspected al-Qaida members a leak, is like calling the flooding of New Orleans the results of a leak.
From the article by Josh Meyer "Leak of NSA Spying is Probed" in the Sun, Dec 31, 2005:
“The existence of the warrantless spying program has caused an uproar in Congress and among privacy experts, who said the Bush administration may have broken the law by intentionally bypassing the secret federal court that is supposed to oversee sensitive investigations involving suspected espionage and terrorism.”
Perhaps in the interest of completeness in reporting, the following from the mission statement of the National Security Agency, available on their website, should also be included:
“The Information Assurance mission provides the solutions, products, and services, and conducts defensive information operations, to achieve information assurance for information infrastructures critical to U.S. national security interests.”
While “privacy experts” may be concerned about the practices of NSA, I believe that the opinion of most American citizens is that our defense agencies SHOULD be attempting find out what enemies of our country are plotting against us. While our enemies are using our technology to harm us, it would seem that “privacy experts” want to stay in the Twentieth Century, ceding every advantage to those who live to kill us.
maica
Good. We should write more such letters.