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by mike_hearn 4018 days ago
A fair point. One of the most surprising revelations from Snowden is that NSA and GCHQ apparently have conjoined intranets.
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Yes, blood brothers ;)

Another surprising revelation was that need-to-know structure isn't necessarily congruent with management structure or chain of command. That is, one can report to someone who isn't authorized to know what one is doing. As I recall, the focus was on financial accountability, duplication of effort, empire building, etc. But there are deeper concerns about accountability.