Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos

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73. We haven't needed evidence nearly so much as we have needed honesty.

Funny how you have not once worried about the NSA providing evidence because on even cursory examination their track record sucks. It sucks because they have to hide behind "it's oh so secret" or we find out how feeble, how mismanaged and how ineffective they really are.

http://www.propublica.org/article/claim-on-attacks-thwarted-by-nsa-spreads-despite-lack-of-evidence

Remember Alexander and Inglis saying the NSA has “contributed to keeping the U.S. and its allies safe from 54 terrorist plots.”

When Senator Leahy FINALLY asked the right question in the right words that allowed NO prevarications, it turns out that
only 13 of them were domestic.

And when pressed farther?

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jul/27/nation/la-na-nsa-politics-20130728

Only ONE case was cited that was conclusively discovered by rifling the nation's collective underwear drawer instead of classic investigative work performed at a fraction of the cost.

How many billion dollars went to Cheney's campaign contributors to stop one guy from sending an $8500 check?

Then again, people gotta get paid and the closer they are to the neocons the more important it becomes they get paid. There are certain expectations in the MIC.