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Sure, if indeed the InfoSec arm is just for show and not the thrust of the organization, then they were chartered in such a way as to be incapable of cultivating goodwill, and incapable of existing in a just and free society.

And as such, the NSA (along with the CIA and perhaps, looking forward, the ONI, MIC, etc) are subject to deprecation.

In order for peace to come to earth in the information age, we must mature beyond a perceived need to have state agencies keeping secrets on the public dime and fomenting reasonable paranoia among the populous.



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