“Low morale at the National Security Agency is causing some of the agency’s most talented people to leave in favor of private sector jobs, former NSA Director Keith Alexander [said]…”
Yay! Fewer spooks spying on us! That is, if we can believe Alexander, a.k.a. Jean-Luc Picard, a notorious liar during his stint at the NSA.
Alexander/Picard rails against “the press for propagating an image of the NSA that causes people to believe they are being spied on at all times by the U.S. government…” Yep: because they are, Jean-Luc. Nonetheless, Alexander/Picard blames the exodus on our disdain for the eavesdroppers even as he insists that the NSA is “doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes. They are the ones that deserve our praise.” No one could ever accuse ol’ Jean-Luc of merely sipping the Kool-Aid: this guy swills it with abandon, right down to the dregs.
Meanwhile, “a former official [speaking]… on the condition of anonymity” provides a reason for the NSA’s depopulation far more consistent with a bureaucracy’s nature. “Morale has always been an issue at NSA, with roughly 20 percent of the workforce doing 80 percent of the actual work … NSA is a place where people retire in place. At some point watching this behavior even for motivated people becomes highly demotivating.”
Whether because we hate them or because the ennui and inertia of bureaucratic life is taking its toll, here’s hoping the NSA’s degenerates keep shufflin’ out that door!
4:49 pm on December 7, 2016
