Whether it's true or not, I think the correct thing for the NSA to do would be to say that they knew about it for years and exploited it. That is their job, after all.
Infuriating? This was exactly what everyone expected them to do. Of course they are going to rigorously defend their own spying program and using the best legal tactics available to them.
As someone not from the US, the passages about how easy it was are clear reminders that just because only the NSA got caught, does not mean only the NSA was doing it.
Even if they have by far the biggest budget...
So now they can detect the location of the "target" and send a drone to kill them from the convenience of their office, before going on lunch break.
This really sickens me. They are inferring so much and therefore many innocent people are and will suffer.
To me this system is pure evil however much the nsa try to sugar coat or spin it. Who gave them the right to do this, to track people around the world and in many cases perform extra judicial assassinations.
This isn't some conspiracy theory. The NSA is simply doing what people have been asking of them for years: be more proactive and public on the defensive side of things. The fact they are also burning RU methods is just icing on the cake for them.
> NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities
I was thinking of something more along the lines of "NSA brings suit against NSA after it learns that tailored operations group was secretly spying on other divisions of the NSA".
Poetic justice.
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