I Was General Counsel of the N.S.A. America Has a Problem With Secrets.

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I Was General Counsel of the N.S.A. America Has a Problem With Secrets.
April 24, 2023
 
By Glenn S. Gerstell

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America’s secrets aren’t sufficiently protected. The recent posting of apparently classified government documents to internet chat rooms allegedly by the Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira reminds us that intelligence reporting is subject to a dilemma: Either we clamp down to prevent leaks, or we share information broadly within government to prevent harm to our nation and our troops.

There is a way out of this predicament, but it entails fundamental and expensive changes.

The first step in this effort will require us to admit that we aren’t investing the right way in preventing leaks. This isn’t any one administration’s failure. When Congress allocates funds to spy agencies, they are more likely to spend them on new spying techniques that might produce richer intelligence, rather than on protective measures that lower the risk of compromise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/opinion/intelligence-leaks-us.html

[Smokin Joe]

" America Has a Problem With Secrets"

Well, that's no secret!

DC leaks like a colander.

[The_Reader_David]

Anyone who was General Counsel to the NSA and did not tell them to stop violating the Fourth Amendment (and either got them to actually stop, or resigned in protest when they didn't) should not be listened to on any matter.  Such a person should be held in contempt for violating their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and sneered at as a tool of unaccountable bureaucrats (or of "the Deep State", if you like the Turkish short-hand for the fact that bureaucrats, esp. in the security services, act in their own guild interests against the interests of the elected government they in theory serve and even more often against the interest of the citizenry).