The National Security Agency Standards Control the Flow of Intelligence and Information, Dictating who Has Access to what Information
Are National Security Agency Standards Legal And Constitutional?
Fierce debate has raged over the spying activities conducted by the National Security Agency over the past several years, although these activities have taken place for at least several decades.
While the spying programs were generally considered secret, as the main body of the general public were completely unaware of them, there was hardly any outrage about them.
However, when the mainstream media began to report on the spying activities of the National Security Agency, the public began to question the validity of the National Security Agency standards used while conducting such an operation.
Many civil liberties advocates have also attacked the National Security Agency, pointing out that it has no Constitutional power to spy or to conduct any of the activities it supposedly does.
The argument is that spying on Americans is unconstitutional because it invades the privacy of individual American citizens, of which the right to privacy in their personal homes is a guaranteed right.
Because the methods of spying are considered unconstitutional and illegal under United States law, any information gathered from these spying programs cannot be used as evidence in a court of law as it has been illegally gathered and thus is inadmissible in court.
While many Americans are beginning to ask whether the National Security Agency standards are entirely out of touch with the legal processes of American society, the NSA continues to conduct surveillance on everyone throughout the world.
NSA Spies on the World
The National Security Agency’s operations are not just limited to the United States and its citizens, but instead its operations are on a global scale.
Their spying efforts are not just spent on Americans, but rather on anyone who interests them, anywhere in the world.
They have been known to spy on anyone from typical citizens to world dignitaries.
By utilizing highly advanced satellite technology, combined with sophisticated and advanced computer technology the National Security Agency has cast a wide-reaching spy blanket over the entire world.
All forms of telecommunications are monitored closely through the use of computer programs that can sift through massive amounts of data and flag keywords or phrases that may be of interest to intelligence specialists.
Why Do They Want to Spy on Everyone?
The National Security Agency believes that it must uphold its National Security Agency standards, thereby protecting the security of the United States government, through any means necessary.
This includes spying on even the American citizens themselves if they become considered a threat to the security of the government.
The intelligence community believes that if they can conduct successful spying operations and gain good intelligence, they will have gained the strategic upper hand over their enemies.
This type of behavior has gained the National Security Agency standards significant criticism, and their activities are widely condemned as directly conflicting with civil liberties.
Where Does Faulty Intelligence Come from?
Much media controversy developed in relation to the so-called intelligence blunder of the Invasion of Iraq.
Public officials continually reminded the public that the intelligence that led to the war was good, and that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical weapons. Because of these accusations, the Invasion of Iraq went ahead.
Afterwards it was determined that the intelligence leading to the war was certainly faulty, because no weapons of mass destruction were uncovered in working condition.
It was believed that Saddam’s chemical weapons supply had either been destroyed or had expired and was completely useless for combat purposes.
Because of these events, and because of the Downing Street Dossier, it was determined that the intelligence about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction programs were doctored and “sexed up” in order to sell the war to the public based on false pretenses.
So it can be safely assumed that the intelligence gathered by the National Security Agency standards was accurate, as was that from the CIA and the DIA, but these intelligence reports were fraudulently altered in order to create a war.