NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First 216
binarstu writes "According to a recent report by Tom Gjelten of NPR, 'NSA officials are bracing for more surveillance disclosures from the documents taken by former contractor Edward Snowden — and they want to get out in front of the story. ... With respect to other information held by Snowden and his allies but not yet publicized, the NSA is now considering a proactive release of some of the less sensitive material, to better manage the debate over its surveillance program.'"
Sad indeed (Score:2, Informative)
This is probably mostly because those european contries where actively working with the NSA. So they (the governments) pretty much knew what was going on and they are scared of their own criminal activities being revealed.
Where I live (The Netherlands) the government is trying to pretty much start doing the same as the NSA is doing, just more in public. Very scary indeed. I really hope the sensible people here will be able to stop them.
Re:What's really scary (Score:2, Informative)
You don't suppose US allies are doing the exact same thing or would if they could? Information is power. Naturally, they must feign outrage and disdain, and meanwhile put their own similar programs on lock down. NSA is probably the envy of the international intelligence community.
Re:Round 1: Fight (Score:2, Informative)
Strauss Khan was well known in France for his sex-obsession and his inability to take "no" as an answer. Just in the two years leading up to his arrest, he had a journalist that accused him of being a bit too forceful, and an employee in the IMF that wrote a letter explaining how he behaved.
But of course it is easier to believe that there is a hidden agenda everywhere, because it's true, it was mindbogglingly stupid of him.