Sometimes gentlemen do read each other’s mail:
NSA has its problems, like any other large organization; problems with management, problems with bureaucracy, problems with change of any kind. But you know what it also has? A brilliant and dedicated work force that would work 24 hours a day, seven days a week if needed in a crisis. A work force that provides much of our country’s “actionable” intelligence and does it with the utmost respect for the privacy of Americans. I was there. I know.
However, the world yawns at that ever-so-honorable pursuit. And if the world yawns, books don’t sell, bloggers panic, newspapers fold and jobs are lost. It’s much better, or at least much easier and more profitable, to twist, spin and distort the truth into a hodgepodge of conflicting motives and methods and hint at the beginning of tyranny and slip in enough fear of privacy concerns to bring the reader back for more.
Utah isn’t so sure.
