New NSA Chief Michael Rogers: Agency Has Lost Americans' Trust

The NSA has lost the trust of the American people as a result of the Edward Snowden leaks, and needs to be more transparent to gain it back, the NSA's new director said Wednesday in his first public comments since taking control of the embattled spy agency.

"I tell the [NSA] workforce out there as the new guy, let’s be honest with each other, the nation has lost a measure of trust in us," Admiral Michael Rogers told a conference of the Women in Aerospace conference in Crystal City, Va....

Rogers didn't lay complete responsibility at the doorstep of the NSA: He blamed public mistrust on the way the newsmedia had framed the issues raised in the Snowden revelations.

"From my perspective the debate and the dialogue to date have been very uneven," he said....

A good way to regain trust is to prosecute those who spied on america. All of them. Put them in camps to be re-educated on the fundamentals of liberty and democracy. Only let them out when they pledge to be loyal to the Constitution and not ever participate in rogue bureaucracies that violate the law. That would include tens of thousands of employees at least. But they need to be held to account. They must never be trusted again.

Diplomacy and military are two different things.

If a government operates on a sem-legitimate basis at least, there’s problem. Those two things should naturally be separate.

But...

the government picks which nations get a full embassy, which get a diplomatic “outpost”, and which get no diplomats.

In order to have trade relations, cultural relations, etc., nations need to have diplomatic ties established.

Having a military-only presence is reserved for nations that are trouble spots, countries that are basically hostile. They don’t get no diplomatic mission.

Trouble is with Libya, all the stuff that was not reported by the news media.

So we think that Libya and Qadaffi was always a virulent anti-American hater.

Turns out, he was an old CIA employee, and he was well-accepted by the American old-money, elite finance, “eastern establishment”, etc., those Yale/Wall Street types, whose employers decide if and when there will be wars.

Turns out, when, let’s call him Q, decided that he wanted Libya out from under the central banking/dollar system, when it kept pushing the point, he had decided to make his own currency - actually - horrors - a regional African currency/banking regime... that’s when the financial elites ordered his rubout. Former employee needed to be wacked. And this was to include a message to all national leaders: this is what happens to our local bosses when they go against the family. When they start thinking they’re gonna make their own money. Everybody better get it: your using dollars ONLY, and you’re BUYING US government bonds, or other US government backed securities. You’re all part of the syndicate, you’re all gonna work with OUR money and OUR debt.

Anyone gets any ideas, they’re gettin’ what Q got. Got it ?

Reduce the size by 50% and rename it.

Not enough.
Indict all current agents with Conspiracy Against Rights & Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law — then disband the agency… also look into indicting the judges in the FICA court and the Congress that authorized the operations / passed the law under which the NSA operated.

IOW, make them pay in blood for violating the Supreme Law of the Land.

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