| It was a fun read, but I can outsmart him in a non fact based analysis that might be closer to the truth. In its blog circa 1813 at St Hélène Napoleon posted on YikYak never credit to malice what can be simply explained by incompetence, and while trying to dominate the world with a huge army, I discovered that my machiavelic plans were anyway countered by having huge organization that tend have incompetence at critical points. Well, Napoléon may have been right. The estimate headcount of all the US agencies are 3 000 000 workers, a huge amount of the population if you want to keep stuffs secret. If not enough, you have at least 5 big agencies and a lot of small one. You also have a tendency to have the patriots like Snowden attracted to secret services and army. Some of them whose opinions may diverge as much with their agencies heading as their sense of duty is strong. Plus without uncovering any big secrets, since 1986 commercial war with Europa and the WTO agreement on stopping to subsidize companies with public money, NASA, DARPA and secret services have been used as a way to discrelty fund part of the economy (namely IT, aeronautic and military industry). And let's no lie to ourselves one of the biggest part of the agencies' job is economical intelligence to favor the interest of some companies. So, well, these subsidies are a resource increasingly taken by the services :) and some companies want this money. Subsidies used to go in road infrastructures where mafia was happy to have its share. Urbanism used to favor real eastate.... There are a lot of enemies inside the USA against the services and their power over this huge budget of theirs. My take on the issue is that maybe russian ... mob ... constituted of USA citizens could totally be involved, but as much as any other economical agents in the USA. The problem of having too much money is that you'd better live in the shadow to not become the target of jealousy. It may be knowing how much CIA and NSA have been involved with IT companies (as both suppliers and recipient of subsidize and probably economical intelligence) that other sectors of the economy like .... real estate, agriculture, energy, distribution want to have their place under the sun back again. So, going back to Napoléon, I do think that the leak in secret service employing that much persons not all trusted requires so much duplication of information and internal leaks to simply get the work done on a day to day basis, that leaks are just a simple expression of a probable incompetence that did not scale up very well. Yes, the russians may have opportunistically played with it. But clearly the biggest problem first is to have huge mammothean bureaucratic agencies. Voilà, me too I made my own I don't know nothing I will tell you everything analysis based on wind. :P |