08.16.13
PARIAH: Poor man’s Bob McNamara
Lawmakers and privacy advocates called Friday for reforms and greater transparency in operations of the National Security Agency in response to reports that the highly secretive agency repeatedly violated privacy rules over the years.
The reaction came after The Washington Post reported the violations in Friday’s editions, citing an internal audit and other top-secret documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. —WaPost
Ninety days ago Keith Alexander was using all the publicity tools of the mainstream press to spread the assertion that Chinese cyber-hacking was stealing the country’s future.
The Edward Snowden affair ended that, making him a poor man’s Bob McNamara after the release of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War.
But it’s radically different today and the times they aren’t a changin’.