It also seems to have passed over our heads
that the goal of these gathering operations, at
home or abroad, is to protect people who live
here from having to endure a tragedy and massacre (like the 9/11 attacks) ever again.
To do this, they have to watch everyone and
be vigilant of everyday occurrences all across
the globe. And, yes, this does mean watching
people who are citizens as they communicate.
If you want to know what happens in these
deep dark corners of the American Government that is our spy agencies, here’s how you do
it.
Go and apply, get your top secret security
clearance and then boom…looky here…now
you can know.
But, if you don’t have this level of clearance
and are not an integral part of the government,
kindly don’t ask and don’t search. Because the
thing is, no one besides the people keeping us
running need to know what happens in those
corners, because the instant that the American
public knows what these agencies are doing, so
does the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and all other organizations and countries who are our enemies.
In the terms of the agencies this is called
Operational-Security or simply OPSEC. Basically saying that people who need to know, will
know, because in the frankest of terms people are horrid at
safeguarding secrets, and when national security is at stake,
the less people that know how they harvest their intelligence or who the inside sources are, the more success they
will have in the protection of our nation and our allies.
We do not need to know, nor should we want to know.
We can rest easy at night knowing that these agencies
are working non-stop to shut down attacks on our soil, and
be thankful that we have these off the record programs to
observe and hear everything.
Simply put: do not worry. They are watching over us,
and if you are not doing anything wrong, then you have no
need to worry. R
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