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, the other intelligence services, and the Department of Defense deemed what was relevant for national security. Even though the NSA remained part of the Department of Defense, its job went far beyond providing military intelligence. It also acted as a service agency to other American intelligence services. They pre- pared
A’s using built-in back doors in its software to read their encrypted messages. Such people were not difficult to find on the Internet. The donors to Ron Paul’s libertarian election campaign (including Snowden) were a matter of public record. Even if there was no shortage of hacktivists who believed the sur-
that he compromised contained many other secret sources and methods. The full extent of the damage Snowden did may never be fully known, even though the Department of Defense spent the better part of a year, and tens of thousands of investigative man-hours, trying to sort out just the compromised sources and methods per- t
“Law is a lot like medicine”: David Weigel, “Edward Snowden and Ron Paul Kick Off Libertarian Student Conference,” Bloomberg News, Feb. 13, 2015. For Ron Paul’s position on “secret government,” see http://www.presstv.ir /Detail/2015/06/02/413952/US-Ron-Paul-CIA-NSA-secret-government. 39 “The [American] gover
of foreign governments. This latter mandate included the governments of allies as well as enemies. The President, the other intelligence services and the Department of Defense deemed what was relevant for national security. Even though the NSA remained part of the Department of Defense, its job went far beyond providing mil
o the NSA using built-in backdoors in their software to read their encrypted messages. They were not difficult to find on the Internet. The donors to Ron Paul’s Libertarian election campaign (including Snowden) were a matter of public record, for example. Even if there was no shortage of hacktavists who beli
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