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Top NSA Surveillance Official Is a Multi-Millionaire

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Re: Top NSA Surveillance Official Is a Multi-Millionaire

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As Seth Finkelstein once said (http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php):

Statistically, real threats are rare, but ambition and corruption are common. Overwhelmingly, the purpose of censorship is not the protection of national security, but the protection of individual careers. That's not ideology, but mathematics. Because there are very, very, few true national secrets, but a huge amounts of information that someone would like to bury for one reason or another.

Someone profited off United Fruit Company stock after the Eisenhower administration decided to stage coups in Guatemal in 1954 (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...). Why should a modern spymaster be any different?