The NSA claims it can't say how many Americans have been spied on because … it would violate their privacy? And, besides, it's too difficult for them to count it?
Oh, well — as long as we're assured the NSA is always the good guys, what's to worry?
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The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won't tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping…
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+Dave Hill Have you seen the video of General Keith Alexander responding to questions.
Hank asks NSA director tough questions about wiretaps, e-mail intercepts
No. Probably best I don't, given my blood pressure.
Orwellian.
Kafkaesque would be, "We cannot report on the numbers of people being spied upon, because it's illegal to spy upon people, and the people who are spying upon you don't like it, and anyway, this is the wrong form for that, which we haven't written yet."
Orwellian = malevolent beaurocracy. Kafkaesque = stupid beaurocracy that's malevolent because someone said so, somewhere, I'm sure it's in the manual, and wouldn't you be grumpy if people were making you find lost paperwork all the time, eh?
+DeAnna Knippling Ha! thanks for clearing that up 🙂
If that was more clear, then perhaps a few rubber stamps will fix that.