NSA Surveilance SCI Who Will Guard the Guards?

It is so obvious!  Just think about it and I know that it must be true because it is so obvious.

No brainer!

The NSA is spying on their own people as well as everyone else.

Sensitive Compartmented Information is for the "in group".  People that have been read into a program.  Not a classification exactly but a category that deals with the most sensitive stuff.  Compartmented so that nobody can connect to other segments of the same project to understand the big picture or true intent.  Cover stories.

Cover stories are not as effective as when there was no google search.  People were given the cover stories and did not ask questions about it even if it was full of holes if you started to put together what limited real information was available.  Now a story can be researched with google.  That ups the game of the cover story creators.  It has to stand up.  Some people are curious about what they are really doing/contributing to that have access to SCI.  They may also have moral beliefs about what is being done.  That is dangerous.

Moral beliefs are most likely swayed by arguments that what is being done is for the good of the American people.  It has to be done to protect them.  It is for their own good that they should not know, nor their representatives.  They could not handle the truth.

People that work with SCI matters are responsible for good judgement.  The highest paying jobs require the best judgment.  Those responsible for exercising judgment often feel that they have certain rights to do what is considered "best" as custodians of freedom and our way of life.  That is the convincing argument that justifies what they do.

People that work with SCI matters are the greatest security threat.  To assure their dependability they are given background checks.  Snowden had one.  Very effective!

The best way to monitor the security of a program is to know everything about all the private communications of those in the program.

Here is the obvious:  The NSA is certainly concerned about capturing, retaining and examining all communications of those working in their own SCI category projects.  Since BI only looks at history, the NSA must know what all their employees are communicating on a real time basis, on the job or off.

Initial Background Investigation focus will certainly shift to examining any applicants prior private communication history.   All information, all the time on everyone is therefore necessary and continuing to monitor all information on all employees is mandatory.  There will be less FBI footwork knocking on doors of high school teachers and asking about their prior students.  Not very efficient or effective screening.

The NSA has data mining programs applied to their own internal communications.  Meta data as well as the connected verbal and written content in order to discover information in a Crowd Sourced manner.  Private Enterprise does the same thing.

I bet that NSA also has a special flag on all SCI personnel that gather every last private personal information detail about their lives.

NSA has to do that to protect us from our protectors that may conclude that they are doing something that is wrong and exposing it.

It is so obvious.  NSA employees are certainly aware that they are being monitored in a category of interest and attention devoted to known terrorists.  The same employees are also probably convinced it is appropriate because of the sensitivity of their jobs.

Good editorial:  Who Will Guard the Guards? 

All information all the time about NSA employees also means that the spouse/children/associates of the employee are also being monitored as high priority scrutiny.

Funny how so many people are worried about their potential association with an NSA target of interest!  They are probably targets if they are related in any manner to an NSA employee working in an SCI area!

Not good to be too close the the "good guys" as well as the "bad guys".

The logic of the obvious....obviously extends to everyone with a government security clearance with scrutiny relative to the degree of clearance.  Millions.  Perhaps there is some small print or secret law someplace that makes this all legal since they are employees, even contractors by extension, and a security clearance is applicable 24/7?