We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget.
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When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.
I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant.
As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.
At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores.
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control, but I'm a little optimistic with some recent Supreme Court decisions, such as law enforcement mostly now needing a warrant before searching a smartphone.
I call people who are covering up NSA crimes traitors.