Ex-Justice Official: Spy Program Shrouded in Secrecy

[Orville Wrong]

The Onion?

No, it's an actual Minneapolis Strib headline (story itself is innocuous and comes from the Washington Post).

http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1460911.html

[ohmikeodd]

I thought everybody knew that?

[Shlep]

What's worse is that I work for the NSA...well, come to think of it, that's not entirely correct, really. Actually, the group I work for what is more like an a semi-autonomous rogue element within the NSA that exists beyond the reach of any executive or Congressional oversight, and which is funded off the books from a variety of sources (i.e. "protection" rackets for Columbian coke lords, sales of raw opium from lawless Afghan tribal areas, illegal arms sales to blacklisted state sponsors of terrorism) which enables the NSA to maintain plausible deniability as we carry out their dirty work.

Anyway: what I meant to say was that if you read the article in Post #1...I'm afraid I'll have to kill you. Ditto if you're reading this post.

It's gonna be a busy weekend....

[ThomasC]

What's worse is that I work for the NSA...well, come to think of it, that's not entirely correct, really. Actually, the group I work for what is more like an a semi-autonomous rogue element within the NSA that exists beyond the reach of any executive or Congressional oversight, and which is funded off the books from a variety of sources (i.e. "protection" rackets for Columbian coke lords, sales of raw opium from lawless Afghan tribal areas, illegal arms sales to blacklisted state sponsors of terrorism) which enables the NSA to maintain plausible deniability as we carry out their dirty work.

Anyway: what I meant to say was that if you read the article in Post #1...I'm afraid I'll have to kill you. Ditto if you're reading this post.

It's gonna be a busy weekend....
I'm CIA, so bring it on.

[Orville Wrong]

What's worse is that I work for the NSA...well, come to think of it, that's not entirely correct, really. Actually, the group I work for what is more like an a semi-autonomous rogue element within the NSA that exists beyond the reach of any executive or Congressional oversight, and which is funded off the books from a variety of sources (i.e. "protection" rackets for Columbian coke lords, sales of raw opium from lawless Afghan tribal areas, illegal arms sales to blacklisted state sponsors of terrorism) which enables the NSA to maintain plausible deniability as we carry out their dirty work.

Anyway: what I meant to say was that if you read the article in Post #1...I'm afraid I'll have to kill you. Ditto if you're reading this post.

It's gonna be a busy weekend....
That made me laugh.