NSA is circling its wagons, in open defiance of Congressional concerns.

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20. Peachy. Let's trust the National 'Seems' Agency's emergency briefing as much as

they've ever trusted us in this 'battleground' country. Because those who've actually surveilled without governmental oversight for the last fifteen years -- and by doing so wrote the book on cynical secrecy and distrust -- can now be trusted as serious when they call an 'emergency briefing.'

And then there's the GOP's opposition. Yeah, that just seamlessly fits with everything else they've done for us all to protect our constitutional rights.

Contingency reinforcement studies show that for every negative event perpetrated on a subject, that subject must then experience fifteen positive events that would rebuild his/her trust. I wouldn't say that we have been contingency-reinforced, but for me, there will have to be a shutdown of the entire black budget, and the provable rescinding of at least 500,000 people's security clearances in this country before I take anything these people say or do seriously.

But I'd rather be a wrong pessimist than a wrong optimist.